How do you pronounce "Don Quixote"?

Is pronounced as "don-kee-hoe-tee"? (That's how I always thought it was pronounced... )

Is pronounced as "don-kee-hoe-tee"? (That's how I always thought it was pronounced... )

[TheWatchman]

Kee-Ho-Tay

[Auburn Annie]

Prefacing this by saying I have never studied Spanish, I have heard it pronounced both "don-kee-hoe-tee" AND "don-kee-hoe-tay." My guess is the proper Spanish pronunciation is the second.

[closetcanadian]

Yes, with a long "o" vowel sound in Don. It is a Spanish term of respect and the correct pronunciation rhymes with the word bone. You have the correct phonetic pronunciation for Quixote.

[Auburn Annie]

Prefacing this by saying I have never studied Spanish, I have heard it pronounced both "don-kee-hoe-tee" AND "don-kee-hoe-tay." My guess is the proper Spanish pronunciation is the second.

I almost had it right

I almost had it right

[closetcanadian]

Oops! The Watchman is correct about the last syllable in Quixote. My bad...

[Don Quixote]

"Key- HOE- Tay" is correct. In Spanish, by the way,it's spelled "Quijote". When the book was first published (1605 1st part, 1615 second part), it was spelled "Quixote" and pronounced "Key -SHO -Tay", as the Spanish "j" sound was in flux. That's why "Mexico" has an "x", even though it's now pronounced "May-hee-co", and spelled "Mejico" in Spain-- the Aztecs actually didn't call themselves Aztecs, but rather "Mexica" (May-SHE-ca) and the place where they lived "Mexico Tenochtitlan". Many other Spanish words that once had an "x", prounounced "sh", in later times were spelled with "j" (pronounced with a very hard, aspirated "h").
This sound is also why, in French, the character is named "Don Quichotte".

[The Rez]

I always thought it was:

Kee-mo-sab-ee

The Rez,

. . . groaning beyond comprehension Don Q