The name…how do you pronounce it? Is it no-tay, or no-tie?
Oh, it’s…you pronounce the K.
Oh, you pronounce the K!
….according to Alan, who is the Old Tongue expert, who corrected me on it even though I named him.
So say it!
k’no-tie. But Alan can correct me, because Alan is the expert.
Does it have any mythological basis that you know of?
No, it does not that I know of, because that one, as most of the names—not all of them, but most of them that I named, because I named him—came from me writing something in English, and saying, “Alan, give me the Old Tongue.”
Okay.
And so, there are times where he’ll find something, and I’ll be like, “Oh, that sounds like this! Let’s use it. Oh, this sounds like this; let’s use it.” Most of the time, it’s…he comes up with the direct translation.
Like, Shaisam, actually…
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean that’s easy to figure out for us, right?
Yeah. And there are some where I say, “Let’s find something that feels like this…” and then, you know, of course, Perrin’s hammer, right?
Yeah.
That’s one where you’re like, you know, let’s find an Old Tongue translation that works for what the mythological symbolism is.
And that works well. It’s hard to pronounce though.
Yeah, it is a little hard to pronounce though.
Can you pronounce it?
MAH-HAHL-in-ear? Eh…ask Alan.
(laughs) Okay.
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