Pronunciation

Taters · Post by **Taters** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:32 pm

Well, Uriel Septim pronounces it "jhay-gahr", so that's what I go with. For Loredas, I vacillate between "lore-dass" and "lo-ray-dass". And for atronach, I once again take a cue from Uriel and say "æ-tro-nawk"

Post by **Kerr** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:42 pm

How do you pronounce Hlaalu? I used to say Ha-Lou-Lou (not sure why) but then someone in Oblivion called it Hal-la-lo

AddictedtoMorrowind · Post by **AddictedtoMorrowind** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:45 pm

I pronounce it "Hlä-loo".

all_freed · Post by **all_freed** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:20 pm

I think I pronounce it like that Flanu necro lady in Skingrad. Huh-la-lu

ZackyZombify · Post by **ZackyZombify** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:30 pm

Huh-lao-loo. Is how I say it.

talk page · Post by **legoless** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:54 pm

H'lah-loo.

philfredobob · Post by **philfredobob** » Wed May 22, 2013 7:12 am

sorry to revive a bit of a dead topic, but i felt this one was interesting and should keep going.

anyways, new question:
how do you pronounce ''Rumare'' ? as in Lake Rumare?

i pronounce it Room-Air
how is it supposed to be pronounced?

Sam · Post by **Sam** » Wed May 22, 2013 11:59 am

Room-aare

Taters · Post by **Taters** » Wed May 22, 2013 10:13 pm

Yeah, I think I vaguely remember hearing it spoken at some point, and I think it was roo-mahr.

talk page · Post by **legoless** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:30 pm

Oblivion's dialogue differs. I've heard "roo-mair", "roo-mahr", "roo-mahr-e". It's also pronounced in Skyrim I think, but I can't remember which version is used.

Post by **Kerr** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:24 pm

"Rum-are" but that's probably wrong.

Torapa · Post by **Torapa** » Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:57 pm

MattFlan wrote:Hi there.

Just a brief question regarding the pronunciation of the word for Saturday in The Elder Scrolls Games, Loredas.

Me and my friend had a minor disagreement (Yes, nerds ) over how you pronounce it.

He says 'Law- Dass'
I say 'Lorry-Dass'
Or perhaps it's 'Law red ass'

I was wondering if anyone here knew the correct way of saying it? Sorry for the random question.

MattFlan

Lard-ass or lewdass

How do you pronounce the Samaire ( a female high elf in morrowind, balmora i think)? Sa-more-a, it looks Gaelic to me.

talk page · Post by **legoless** » Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:14 pm

Torapa wrote:How do you pronounce the Samaire ( a female high elf in morrowind, balmora i think)? Sa-more-a, it looks Gaelic to me.

Doesn't read as Gaelic. I'd say "Sah-Mare".

Celtyk · Post by **Celtyk** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:48 pm

Torapa wrote:w do you pronounce the Samaire

[sʌmɑː]

philfredobob wrote:sorry to revive a bit of a dead topic, but i felt this one was interesting and should keep going.

anyways, new question:
how do you pronounce ''Rumare'' ? as in Lake Rumare?

i pronounce it Room-Air
how is it supposed to be pronounced?

[rʊmæ]

Knight Captain Kerr wrote:How do you pronounce Hlaalu? I used to say Ha-Lou-Lou (not sure why) but then someone in Oblivion called it Hal-la-lo

[hlɑːlʊ]

deathm00n · Post by **deathm00n** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:11 pm

It's weird seeing how you all pronounce it, being a native Portuguese speaker. It's a language with a lot of stoping ( don't know the technical term for it, like Dah in Fus Ro Dah), for exemple a word that is hard to pronounce here is Paralelepípedo ( Pah-Rah-Leh-Leh-Py-Peh-Doh)

Loredas = Loh-re-dass
Jagar = Jah-Gahr
Rumare = Ruh-mah-re

Torapa · Post by **Torapa** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:20 pm

legoless wrote:
Torapa wrote:How do you pronounce the Samaire ( a female high elf in morrowind, balmora i think)? Sa-more-a, it looks Gaelic to me.
Doesn't read as Gaelic. I'd say "Sah-Mare".

Well my wife (in real life) her name is Maire (Ulster gaelic for Mary also means bitter)
and she pronounces it More-ah. so you woulld see why i'd think it looks like gaelic to me.

Irishpotato · Post by **Irishpotato** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:47 pm

I know some of those Caves and daedric ruins in morrowind are UBER hard to pronounce. if anyone here can maybe name a few in this thread and give the phonetic spelling, that would be great. just for s$its and giggles.

Lethandhrel One-Eye · Post by **Lethandhrel One-Eye** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 2:35 pm

Loh-reh-das
Jay-gahr
At-ron-ahck
Roo-marr-uh
Sam-air

talk page · Post by **legoless** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:54 pm

Irishpotato wrote:I know some of those Caves and daedric ruins in morrowind are UBER hard to pronounce. if anyone here can maybe name a few in this thread and give the phonetic spelling, that would be great. just for s$its and giggles.

The Daedric ruins don't seem that hard to pronounce, just long. For example, Ashalmimilkala - just break it down. Ah-shal-mih-milk-allah.

Secret Magic User · Post by **Secret Magic User** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:47 am

Here's one: Xivilai
I say ziv-ill-I

talk page · Post by **legoless** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:56 pm

Yeah, Kathutet says it in dialogue in Oblivion.

Ursula R. M. · Post by **Ursula R. M.** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:21 pm

Lethandhrel One-Eye wrote:Loh-reh-das
Jay-gahr
At-ron-ahck
Roo-marr-uh
Sam-air

This is a fun topic you seemed to have dusted off.
I thought Roo-mar-ee, but don't remember hearing it.
The days are funny, I mess with them Turd-ass/ Lard-ass/ but for Louredas? I think LORE-EH-DAS. So are these that you posted the correct pron.?

Venger · Post by **Venger** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:32 am

Okay let's face it, it is officially cool to use hard to pronounce but cool to spell names in works of fiction. And while some of us present are genius linguists, most of us aren't (I among them).
Through my travels of the interwebs I have chanced upon a few proper pronunciations of some words used readily in some of the games, but also from the voice of the NPCs found within Tamriel as well.

For instance, I have discovered that the word /cuirass/ is pronounced /cure-as.s/ (Pardon the skirting of the swear filter there mods, but it is the best, American keyboard method I could come up with on short notice.) Until I discovered this, I pronounced it /kur-uss/.

Other instances: /dreugh/ I pronounced /droo'/, whereas it is apparently pronounced /dregg'/ (according to NPCs in Oblivion).

Lastly, and I believe there was a topic about this in the Morrowind subforum a few years back, but I pronounced /Chitin/ as /Chitin/ (the sound ch sound found in words like /church/, /couch/ or /lunch/. Supposedly it is pronounced /kite-inn/ (hard 'k' sound, long 'I').

As a side note, I think it would be a good idea to include proper pronunciation guides, and even audio files, for commonly mispronounced, or unique words (like Chitin or dreugh) over in the wiki pages. Any thoughts on this?

Deandra · Post by **Deandra** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:50 am

Venger wrote: I think it would be a good idea to include proper pronunciation guides, and even audio files, for commonly mispronounced, or unique words (like Chitin or dreugh) over in the wiki pages. Any thoughts on this?

Chitin and cuirass are actual English words, so I don't think it should be our place to teach people how to say them. But I think it could be helpful to give a pronunciation for TES-specific words.

Mattbott · Post by **Mattbott** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:43 am

there is some in-game pronunciation which impacts on 'real words'

example: the orc librarian and at least one of the lady altmer wizards in the college of winterhold refer to you as 'ark mage', whereas i think the humans pronounce it 'arch mage', which is how I would say it
i have also heard npcs pronounce words differently to how I would, which I thought might be the voice actors/coaches being unfamiliar with the terms.. but the arch mage example seems pretty deliberate

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