So how do you pronounce 'dweomer'?

That's it. A simple question, really

I've got no idea what the official pronunciation is (you could probably look it up on google or a dictionary site) but we always pronounced it dweeee - o - mer

Although we never used the word because it seemed like a silly made-up word to us that we'd never heard of outside of D&D

Dw (as on dwarf) + ee (as in tree) + ohm (as in Rome) + er (as in fir).

Dew-oh-mer

Used to be dew - ohm - air when I was a kid until I heard someone using the correct dweeee pronunciation.

Interestingly it isn't found by the Google "define" keyword, by mirriam-webster online, by dictionary.com, by the 1913 websters revised unabridged dictionary or microsofts encarta online.

The following information doesn't seem to be available online, but I copied from the Google cache for http://www.gregorpurdy.com/gregor/wow/000438.html

dweomer
An obscure word meaning magic.


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From The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 1 (A-O); 18th Printing, 1979; Library of Congress catalog number 76-188038:

Dweomercraeft. Obs. [f. O.E. *dwimer, *dweomer, in zedwimer, zedwomer, illusion, sourcery, necromancy, zedwinere, juggler, sourcerer + craeft, CRAFT.] Juggler, magic art.

c.1205 LAY. 30634 And Pelux hit wiste anan purh his dweomer-craeften.

Related: Dweomerlayk = Demerlayk.

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From The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology; T.F. Hoad; ISBN 0-19-283098-8 (pbk).

Dwarf comes from the old English word dweorg/dweorgh/dwerg.

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The stem 'werg-' means 'to do'. (Words and Rules, page 68).


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The perlopentut (Perl open tutorial) document by Tom Christiansen uses the term 'dweomer'.


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'Dweomer' also occurs in some fantasy literature and role playing games.


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From The Word Lover's Dictionary; Citadel Press, Josefa Heifetz, 1997; ISBN 0-8065-1720-4.

dwergma: "echo". Of Norse origin. Means Dwarf Language. Supposedly dwarves live in the rocks and are the source of the echoes

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[UPDATE 2001-10-01] Tolkein uses 'Dwimmerlaik' as a contemptuous title for the lord of the Nazgul. This appears to be a way of saying 'necromancer', given gedwimer = sorcery and lic = corpse.

Posted by gregor at February 5, 2000

Ma'jik

dwee-mer or dwem-mer - the "o" is silent.

If you're a germanic-accented dwarf like in Gary Gygax's "Gord the Rogue" series, it'd be "DVEEMER."

Enlightening.

Once again enworlders save the day!

My 1E DM always pronounced it dwa-mer (rhymes with "bomber"). Not that I'm saying that's the correct pronounciation, but it worked for us!