Ettmetal name orgins

[reisleK she/her]

I know it's harmonium and why it's not called Sazedium (personally Sazeium sounds better) but why is it called Ettmetal? I couldn't find anything on the topic.
 

[Treamayne]

46 minutes ago, reisleK said:

I know it's harmonium and why it's not called Sazedium (personally Sazeium sounds better) but why is it called Ettmetal? I couldn't find anything on the topic.
 

I do not think Brandon has definitively answered why he chose that name, though my personal theory is that:

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Since the SoScad culture seems to be heavily influenced by Northern Europe (Norse - Denmark/Sweden/Norwegian/Finnish) the "ett" borrowed from that language  family means it would roughly translate to "the one metal" or just "the metal" / "one metal." Wiktionary:

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Etymology

From Old Norse eitt. 

ett n

1. The neuter indefinite article.

Numeral

ett (common en)

1. one

Making it's name an implication of Jaggenmire - a combination of Frue and Herr

 

[reisleK she/her]

1 minute ago, Treamayne said:

I do not think Brandon has definitively answered why he chose that name, though my personal theory is that:

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Since the SoScad culture seems to be heavily influenced by Northern Europe (Norse - Denmark/Sweden/Norwegian/Finnish) the "ett" borrowed from that language  family means it would roughly translate to "the one metal" or just "the metal" / "one metal." Wiktionary:

Making it's name an implication of Jaggenmire - a combination of Frue and Herr

 

I was thinking it could be from the latin "et", meaning and, since Harmony is both Ruin and Preservation. 

[Treamayne]

1 minute ago, reisleK said:

I was thinking it could be from the latin "et", meaning and, since Harmony is both Ruin and Preservation. 

Possible, I suppose. But that would seem out-of-place for the rest of the worldbuilding on that continent.

[reisleK she/her]

3 hours ago, Treamayne said:

Possible, I suppose. But that would seem out-of-place for the rest of the worldbuilding on that continent.

True, your theory makes more sense than mine anyway