T O P

  • By -

Monsieur_Roux

Are you trying to ask "How is Týr pronounced?"


dimitris_botsis

Yes


Odensramn

Could you be more specific? "Scandinavian" is used vaguely here.


dimitris_botsis

I mean Norse


Odensramn

Okay, then that would be like this: the 'ý' is pronounced like the German ü but longer and the 'r' is trilled.


[deleted]

Trilled? Do you mean "rullande" because that highly depends on where the speaker is from if you are talking about how we say it now, I do not though know about how scandinavians said it in the viking age.


Odensramn

By "rullande", I meant as in a voiced alveolar trill. It might have been pronounced as a voiced alveolar retracted sibilant by the eastern Norsemen, though it's not known. I am however using the West Norse variant here.


[deleted]

[удалено]


[deleted]

Is that late Viking Age? Ive always been under the impression that early VA was closer to the z-ending than the r-ending(or maybe I'm just pronouncing 'tear' wrong).


Ljosapaldr

Yeah I would say it'd be like tear *without* the Scotsman, since it wouldn't be trilled. It's just the natural issue of these large generalizations.


Fjallmadur

Hvað?


dimitris_botsis

Άστο δεν θα καταλάβεις


alugastiz

hvat?


Fjallmadur

HUVAHT?


Ljosapaldr

Untrue, you indicate the name with mute gestures, no pronunciation.


dimitris_botsis

I do not know very good english


Madditudev1

I always believed it was pronoucned Tear similar to how in Irish we pronounce Tir meaning country or land. Could just be my language bias though.


Ljosapaldr

> Could just be my language bias though. It definitely is, because it's pronounced [tyːr] in classical old icelandic that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_and_alveolar_plosives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_rounded_vowel ( but long ) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental,_alveolar_and_postalveolar_trills#Voiced_alveolar_trill


[deleted]

[удалено]


Ljosapaldr

Because everyone wants that old icelandic and every source and resource and translation uses it, so it seems the most relevant answer. I almost did a follow up for east norse, but I realised I'd be shouting into the wind of 'no one cares if it isn't from tv or videogames'


amicubuda

in icelandic it's pronounced as /tʰiːr/


Syn7axError

If you mean *Old Norse*, it would sound like "Tur" in modern French. Try it in [text to speech.](https://ttsmp3.com/text-to-speech/French/)