Anthony Appleyard #1 Posted December 27, 2019 In the real world, the Dothraki title "Khal" may have been inspired by some words or names in Middle-Eastern languages: compare: (1) The common Arabic man's name Khalid or Khaled (2) See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khalistan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RumHam #2 Posted December 27, 2019 6 minutes ago, Anthony Appleyard said: In the real world, the Dothraki title "Khal" may have been inspired by some words or names in Middle-Eastern languages: compare: (1) The common Arabic man's name Khalid or Khaled (2) See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khalistan I always figured it was a tweek of Khan. 2 Corvinus85 and Prince of the North reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Narsil4 #3 Posted December 31, 2019 It may have it's origin in Tolkien's Elvish, which is partly based on real languages. https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1269902703.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nowy Tends #4 Posted March 3 A khan is a chief, a leader in different languages/cultures (Mongols, Tatars, Turkoman, Persian…) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
