How to pronounce Quale?

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Pronunciation of Quale in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

Quale is pronounced as

K W AH L - ee

k sounds like the 'k' in 'key'
w sounds like the 'w' in 'win'
ah sounds like the 'a' in 'car'
l sounds like the 'l' in 'let'
ee sounds like the 'ee' in 'see'


Quale is pronounced as: Phonetic Spelling:[ K W AH L - ee ]

K W AH L - ee
key win car let   see

Type of Name:

Placename

Language:

Norwegian

Alternate Spelling(s):

Kvale

Additional Information:

"Kvale" is the name of at least two large farms near Voss, Norway. Into the 1800s, Norwegian last names were the specific location of birth (ie, generally not the same as one's parents). So a young married couple who settled as tenant farmers on part of the Kvale farm would give their children born on that farm the last name "Kvale"; when the children grew up, married, and moved away, their children would receive different last names derived from birthplace, etc. The farms would have several simultaneous (unrelated) tenant farmer families at any given time, and with every generation new unrelated families took residence, so two Kvales are not necessarily related in any way.

"Kvale" was often changed to "Quale" upon immigration to the United States (at which point it became a hereditary last name, of course). And at some point in the late nineteenth century, Norway's naming laws changed in this way as well.


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Pronunciation of Quale in US

   Slow

The American pronunciation of Quale is

kwail  

k sounds like the 'k' in 'key'
w sounds like the 'w' in 'win'
ai sounds like the 'ai' in 'pain'
l sounds like the 'l' in 'let'


Hindi/Devanagari transliteration:

The closest approximation of the American pronunciation of 'Quale' in Hindi/Devnagiri script is


क्वेल



Type of Name:

Last Name

Language:

American


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Pronunciation of Quale

Quale is pronounced as

kuh WALL ee

ee sounds like the 'ee' in 'see'


Quale is pronounced as: Phonetic Spelling:[ kuh WALL ee ]

ee
see

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Pronunciation of Quale

QUALL-ee
rhymes with "WALL-E" (the Pixar movie)
or, pronounced like "quality" minus the "it"


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Pronunciation of Quale in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

rhymes with "WALL-E" (the Pixar movie)
or, pronounced like "quality" minus the "it"


Type of Name:

Placename

Language:

Norwegian

Alternate Spelling(s):

Kvale

Additional Information:

"Kvale" is the name of at least two large farms near Voss, Norway. Into the 1800s, Norwegian last names were the specific location of birth (ie, generally not the same as one's parents). So a young married couple who settled as tenant farmers on part of the Kvale farm would give their children born on that farm the last name "Kvale"; when the children grew up, married, and moved away, their children would receive different last names derived from birthplace, etc. The farms would have several simultaneous (unrelated) tenant farmer families at any given time, and with every generation new unrelated families took residence, so two Kvales are not necessarily related in any way.

"Kvale" was often changed to "Quale" upon immigration to the United States (at which point it became a hereditary last name, of course). And at some point in the late nineteenth century, Norway's naming laws changed in this way as well.


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Pronunciation of Quale

Like "Quality" without the "it" in the middle of the word. Kuh-wall-eeee


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