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hey guys I just wanted to know how you actually pronounce some of the things in the 40K universe...list some that you dont understand.

Necrontyr....is the final n silent does it sound like necro-tyr?
Macragge....I thought it was ma-craig?
Aeronautica....i think its like its spelled
Tzeentch....zz-ench?
Grimladus the Reclusiarch....Grim ladus/lettuce?

1: Neck-ron-ter

2: Mic-rag(scottish ya know)

3: Aero-nautica

4: Z-eeench

5: Grim-lad-es. Re-clus-e-arch

Commissar41.0 wrote:hey guys I just wanted to know how you actually pronounce some of the things in the 40K universe...list some that you dont understand.

Necrontyr....is the final n silent does it sound like necro-tyr?
Macragge....I thought it was ma-craig?
Aeronautica....i think its like its spelled
Tzeentch....zz-ench?
Grimladus the Reclusiarch....Grim ladus/lettuce?

Necron-tire
Mac-crag-gay
Air-oh-naut-ica(Why would this be difficult to pronounce?)
Hell as I know how to pronounce Tzeentch. T-z-ntch, the e's are silent is how I always do it

Regarding Macragge, while it's a terrible movie, the Ultramarines movie obviously mentions it a few times. The only licensed product where you hear it said, to my knowledge.

They simply say mac-crag.

I've always had the humorous idea that UMs have Scottish accents. Greeko-romans with Scottish accents. Hail Ceaser n'll that laddie.

Commissar41.0 wrote:hey guys I just wanted to know how you actually pronounce some of the things in the 40K universe...list some that you dont understand.

Necrontyr....is the final n silent does it sound like necro-tyr?
Macragge....I thought it was ma-craig?
Aeronautica....i think its like its spelled
Tzeentch....zz-ench?
Grimladus the Reclusiarch....Grim ladus/lettuce?

This is how I've always pronounced them:

Neh-cron-TEER (as in the 'tier' of a tournament)

Mah-CRAG (with a slight roll on the 'r')

Err-oh-NAW-tee-cah (Exactly as the English 'Aeronautical')

Tzeentch - Make a 'Tsss' sound as if you're indicating something is hot, then 'een' (as in 'bean'), followed by 'ch' (as in 'cheese') - I believe it is a single syllable. (Keep in mind it's designed to be ungainly and unpleasant to say. In the 40k world just saying the name can give people nosebleeds.)

Grim-LA-dus (as in 'dust') the Re-CLU-see-ark

Others I've seen pronounced incorrectly are:

C'Tan - supposedly pronounced 'suh-TAN'

Ciaphus - KAI-ah-fus

Kaldor Draigo - 'CHEE-see BAS-turd'

DoW

It's spelled Grimaldus. I don't know how it's pronounced, though.

Grim-all-dus

Here's one that confuses me: people always pronounce Slaanesh as Sla-NESH with the emphasis on the nesh (sorry not good at indicating pronunciation... stuff) when there are two a's, meaning it should be more like Slaaaaaaanesh.

Don't forget Saim-Hann (pronounced sam-hine).

Grey Templar wrote:I've always had the humorous idea that UMs have Scottish accents. Greeko-romans with Scottish accents. Hail Ceaser n'll that laddie.

Considering it apparently Scottish it would be Mac-crag not Mic-rag...
Also @OP * Enunciation

Yeah, Tzeentch has a hard consonant at the beginning. Think of it the way you say a double-z in Italian (think of how you pronounce "pizza"), or like the the second consonant in the name Mozart.

We can thank Greek for this mess, as the original Greek Z had a hardness to the consonant that wound up rolling and bouncing strangely through the various languages that are ultimately derived from it.

Of course, if you're looking for the proper annunciation, you need to have an angel speak to you.

Saim Hann = Sam Hain (Celtic feast)
C'Tan = Satan (just omit the first a)
Commoragh = Gomorra .

DogOfWar wrote:Kaldor Draigo - 'CHEE-see BAS-turd'

DoW

I lol'd
The thing I find people have trouble with is, for some reason, WAAAGH! which should simply be pronounced the same as "War", but far longer, louder, and with pistols being fired into the air as it's said.

Kroothawk wrote:
C'Tan = Satan (just omit the first a)

I always pronounced C'tan with a hard "C" like it "cat"

Buttons wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:
C'Tan = Satan (just omit the first a)

I always pronounced C'tan with a hard "C" like it "cat"

I'd probably agree with you, seeing as they're clearly inspired, at least in part, by the Cthulhu mythos.

Commissar41.0 wrote:hey guys I just wanted to know how you actually pronounce some of the things in the 40K universe...list some that you dont understand.

Necrontyr....is the final n silent does it sound like necro-tyr?
Macragge....I thought it was ma-craig?
Aeronautica....i think its like its spelled
Tzeentch....zz-ench?
Grimladus the Reclusiarch....Grim ladus/lettuce?

Neck-ron-tier
Mah-cragg.
As it's spelled.
T'Zeen-ch. (Listen to the pronunciation of zehn in German, it's the same sound at the start.)
That's misspelled, it's "Grimaldus" which is just as it's spelled.


And C'tan has a hard "C", it's a reference to Lovecraft.

Kroothawk wrote:C'Tan = Satan (just omit the first a)

More than a few people have mentioned asking the studio guys at Games Days and the like about that one, and supposedly it's a had C, not an S-sound.

Yeah, but if we were to use other languages it would be a S sound. Sea-tan

Having the name of ancient evil star gods sound the same as a board game doesn't feel right.

insaniak wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:C'Tan = Satan (just omit the first a)

More than a few people have mentioned asking the studio guys at Games Days and the like about that one, and supposedly it's a had C, not an S-sound.

Yeah, there's a professor of classics who comes to my FLGS and he says it's based on an ancient greek thing (TBH I wasn't paying masses of attention), but he says it's a hard C.

Grey Templar wrote:Yeah, but if we were to use other languages it would be a S sound. Sea-tan

Having the name of ancient evil star gods sound the same as a board game doesn't feel right.

Using latin we'd get K'tan or Ch'tan, depending on what kind of latin you're using.

I'm curious how people pronounce the 'Ymgarl' in Ymgarl Genestealers? I pronounce it UM-garl, as in Welsh 'y's in the penultimate syllable are typically pronounced with an 'uh' sound, but I've also heard people say IM-garl or IM-arl with a silent g.

DogOfWar wrote:

Commissar41.0 wrote:hey guys I just wanted to know how you actually pronounce some of the things in the 40K universe...list some that you dont understand.

Necrontyr....is the final n silent does it sound like necro-tyr?
Macragge....I thought it was ma-craig?
Aeronautica....i think its like its spelled
Tzeentch....zz-ench?
Grimladus the Reclusiarch....Grim ladus/lettuce?

This is how I've always pronounced them:

Neh-cron-TEER (as in the 'tier' of a tournament)

Mah-CRAG (with a slight roll on the 'r')

Err-oh-NAW-tee-cah (Exactly as the English 'Aeronautical')

Tzeentch - Make a 'Tsss' sound as if you're indicating something is hot, then 'een' (as in 'bean'), followed by 'ch' (as in 'cheese') - I believe it is a single syllable. (Keep in mind it's designed to be ungainly and unpleasant to say. In the 40k world just saying the name can give people nosebleeds.)

Grim-LA-dus (as in 'dust') the Re-CLU-see-ark

Others I've seen pronounced incorrectly are:

C'Tan - supposedly pronounced 'suh-TAN'

Ciaphus - KAI-ah-fus

Kaldor Draigo - 'CHEE-see BAS-turd'

DoW

I need to support this one, This is how I say it and hear people say it

However C'Tan I say as "K - Tan"

I believe its like how the Y is pronounced in Norse Mythology. Lik Yggdrasil.

So Im-garl.

Agree with the pronunciations, but one HUGE error in the thread for me.

Enunciation... ih-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn


no offense to anyone here, but that's been buggin me.

Kroothawk wrote:Saim Hann = Sam Hain (Celtic feast)

It's SAHwen or SAHween.

As in, Halloween.

dpal666 wrote:Agree with the pronunciations, but one HUGE error in the thread for me.

Enunciation... ih-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn


no offense to anyone here, but that's been buggin me.

Amen

This is annunciation:

Regarding Slaanesh, I have always seen it as a word you could whisper quite menacingly.

Something horrid you wouldn't want to hear, oddly in a similar fashion to parseltongue ala the Harry Potter books.

So Slah-nessh, although that might just be me.

As for Ymargl, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Norse, Use the Y like a German J. Somewhat like the way you pronounce the letter U when speaking the aphabet, but with an I inflection.

ive heard audio book saying C'Tan are Kuh-Taan like katana just drop the last a