Is it TIE-fling or TEA-fling?

[Marshal_Lannes]

Tiefling, a race created and trademarked by D&D, is one of the more interesting species having attained both monster and PC status within DDO. However, how exactly do you say it? Even the DM seems confused. In Sins of Attrition, the DM alternates between calling them TEA-flings and TIE-flings. So, which exactly is the correct pronunciation?

 

[rabidfox]

Makes me think of Mister Teatime from the Hogfather.

 

[Arkat]

Tiefling, a race created and trademarked by D&D, is one of the more interesting species having attained both monster and PC status within DDO. However, how exactly do you say it? Even the DM seems confused. In Sins of Attrition, the DM alternates between calling them TEA-flings and TIE-flings. So, which exactly is the correct pronunciation?

How do you pronounce, "Thief"?

 

[droid327]

How do you pronounce, "Thief"?

To be fair, "tie"-"fling" is exactly how its spelled, and that would be pronounced the other way. Plus it'd be pretty hilarious to see them hurling flaming Half Windsors at enemies

But yeah, I side with "tief" as in "thief" or "grief" or "chief", as the fictional phonology is pretty obviously that "-ief" phoneme with "-ling" appended to it, not "-fling"

 

[Jack Jarvis Esquire]

It's the second one. Or you're wrong on the internet.

 

[Natashaelle]

 

[erethizon1]

I hear the word most commonly in the quest Partycrashers and there they call them Tea-fling.

 

[Memnir]

They're only Tieflings if they come from the Tief region of Khorvaire.
Otherwise they're just sparkling crossbreeds.

 

[Bjond]

If the originators wanted it to tie it down rather than tee it up, it would have been spelled Tifling or Tyefling to make it painfully obvious. If it's intended to be English, Tiefling would follow the same pronunciation as Thief/etc..

 

[Arkat]

If the originators wanted it to tie it down rather than tee it up, it would have been spelled Tifling or Tyefling to make it painfully obvious. If it's intended to be English, Tiefling would follow the same pronunciation as Thief/etc..

Too many people on this forum will be impervious to your sound logic.

 

[Barton]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/754725279671590914

 

[Barton]

Also think there is an interview or article from Zeb where he pronounces it that way as well

 

[Misadventure]

 

[PURPLETIMB]

Also, the word DROW rhymes with GROW, not cow.

 

[Thorntoe]

According to Will Wheaton, it is a Gnomish word derived from the original Bullywug word, and is pronounced: TEA-eff-lee-en-guh.

 

[droid327]

Also, the word DROW rhymes with GROW, not cow.

How now, brown Drow?

I'm pretty sure it does rhyme with cow though

The word "drow" is from the Orcadian and Shetland dialects of Scots,[7] an alternative form of "trow",[8] which is a cognate with "troll"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drow

A trow [trʌu][Rhyming with "how"](also trowe, drow, or dtrow) is a malignant or mischievous fairy or spirit in the folkloric traditions of the Orkney and Shetland islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trow_(folklore)

 

[Krelar]

Not sure it gets more official that this.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1439670423239671809

 

[The_Apocalypse]

tee-EFF-ling

 

[Natashaelle]

Very different meaning, but -- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 2009 :

drow, n.1 Sc.

(draʊ)

[perh. f. ppl. stem drow- of dree v. to endure, suffer, undergo, which is phonologically suitable.]

A fit of illness; a fainting fit; a qualm.

---

So from OED, drow rhymes with cow.

And there's a West Indies "tief" meaning and rhyming with "thief".

 

[Alco]

Too many people on this forum will be impervious to your sound logic.

Pronunciation guide? Sound logic? I see what you did there...