"the origin of them is that I made them up" lol

1:15 - Cthaeh 1:23 - Kvothe 1:29 - Adem, Ademre 1:38 - Caeldish, Ceald 2:21 - Siaru 2:32 - Tempi 2:45 - Devi 3:33 - Edema Ruh 3:43 - Tarbean 4:05 - Tinuë 4:19 - Vashet 4:28 - Letantha 4:38 - Haert 4:48 - Feant 4:59 - Elodin 5:14 - Imre 5:24 - Amyr 5:27 - Modeg 5:28 - Yll, Yllish 5:42 - Skarpi 5:47 - Myr Tariniel 5:51 - Tehlu, Tehlin 5:57 - Taborlin the Great 6:05 - Kote 6:27 - Chandrian 6:34 - Fela 6:52 - Hemme 7:03 - Lanre, Lyra 7:10 - Maedre 7:27 - Auri 7:40 - Eolian 8:04 - Aleph 8:30 - Aturan 8:40 - Elxa Dal 8:48 - Trebon 8:52 - Lethani 9:01 - Abenthy 9:06 - Felurian 9:18 - Ciridae 9:48 - Carceret 9:57 - Saicere, Caesura 10:08 - Centhe Sea 10:18 - Neware 10:33 - El’the 13:02 - Reshi 13:14 - Amauen, Anpauen 14:03 - Vorfelan Rhinata Morie 14:12 - Maer (Alveron) 15:03 - Valeritas 15:26 - Kist, Kraem 16:07 - Shaed 16:15 - Aloine, Savien 16:30 - Devan Lochees 17:06 - Rashi 17:21 - Denna 18:36 - Cinnas 18:41 - Scrael 18:45 - Selas 19:05 - Alar 19:14 - Foxen 19:18 - Rike 19:25 - Re’lar 19:30 - Teccam 19:37 - Dracci, Draccuses 19:54 - Sithe 20:05 - Usnea 20:15 - Count Threpe 20:35 - Tahlenwold (give or take a couple seconds)

I laughed when Pat forgot a name of a place from his own book. This has happened to me on more than one occasion during revisions. "Wait, who was so-and-so's childhood friend again?"

rothfuss: there is no latin or greek in my world also rothfuss: caesura

tfw when you pronounced "Caeldish" as "Kale-dish" this whole time

The pronunciation of Cealdish makes me immeasurably happy for some reason.

Hearing the correct pronunciation of edema ruh makes me think my entire life is a lie

We gave our newborn son the middle name Elodin, so this helps a bunch. :)

My middle name is Has'trythsxz'gort and this offends me.

I'm surprised so many people didn't pronounce Edema Ruh properly. It never occurred to me that it could be anything other than a "roo" sound! Fascinating

I've watched this video so many times for the Kingkiller lore videos I make, and I still have trouble pronouncing Kvothe.

Pat, I hope you read this. Fela is a name for boys where i live. I've never been so attracted to myself.

Now every author who's ever used an apostrophe in a name must add a youtube video pronouncing it.

I always thought that Auri was a name derived from Aurum, Latin for gold, as a reference to her hair or her personality. Granted, in the book it means "sunny" (or something similar), but I really liked my assumption.

I actually really ended up liking the Devi character, despite her being such a hardass.

I used to pronounce Chandrian as Shandrian lol

I pronounce some of them wrong because of the audio book

Haha, as someone who read the books in german, i pronounced most things right because my pronounciation was german influenced (Edema Ruh as roo not ruh)

I've pronounced all these names in Norwegian. Some where really close though. Fun hearing them pronounced! :)

You really need to get in touch with the people who do the audio books, because a lot of these are gonna drive me insane when I give the series another listening.

omg my theory was correct, he lives right in the middle of newarre, which also seems similar to nowhere. now the strange thing is faerinial(the city of the story k tells to sim and will) is in the middle of nowhere. so kvothes inn is in faerinial

So... Lanre is actually a real name! It comes from the shortened Yoruba (Nigerian) male name Olanrewaju, which means "my wealth is the future" or something like that. Short forms of Yoruba names are almost always used in day-to-day language. It obviously wasn't intended but it is good to see some name representation from my continent :)

"the origin of them is that I made them up" Glad to hear that... 😂I'm also writing a book and this is a great motivation for writing character names..

So Patrick Rothfuss thought of the word "Sithe" prior to 1974?

I was so wrong about almost all of these

Creo que nos beneficia bastante ser hispanohablantes, casi todos los nombres los pronunciaba bien excepto Kvothe... Siempre le dije "Cuoth"

Thank you for this, Patrick. My love for your work is boundless! Many blessings to you and your family.

Having listened to both books on audio I will always hear things pronounced that way! ie almost entirely wrong in every way 😂

WHOA! He said "anapestic metrical foot" I HAD to look that up. lol Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse dactyl", and shares the rapid, driving pace of the dactyl.

See, this is great for me (who has only ever heard the Audible pronunciations for these words and names) to learn how these nouns are spelled.

Newarre...right in the middle of nowhere...nice one

I've been saying Shandrian this whole time. I've grown to love that version more than Chandrian.

Nick Pohdel always says "Seel-dish". I assume that's a no for that then?

"Willem & Simmon sound familiar because I wanted them to sound like real names". Yes, because they literally are. Those are two very common Dutch names.

Dunno why you showed up in my suggested feed, but I'm glad it did, subscribed!

I listened to your books on audiobook and so many of these pronunciations are so different, I can't take it!! :')

No wonder the name "Felurian" reminded me of Luthien! It does rhythmically sound like Tinuviel.

I always thought Kvothe was phonetically similar to "Quothe" (like "Quothe the Raven?") And thought it was a pun given his trouper background.

Just started this series and this helped a lot.

this is so cool to know, ive discuss a lot of the names here with a friend and we finally have the answer,. Love youyr books btw, keep it up

Dammit. I've been saying "ruh" not "roo" this whole time.

I always think of Kvothe like "Quoth," as in; "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'"

Just finished the second book. I need the last one! Don't make us wait much longer

lol. Listening to this, all the Words sound very "American" ... I'm now doubting my own imagined versions sound fantasy-ish at all, and very English. Although I did notice I put a few French inflections on some of the words.

In India “Devi” means “Goddess” Durga Devi / Goddess Durga Kaali Devi / Goddess Kaali

Sweet! I can settle my bets now!

Thank you! It's a sweet and nice when authors say "however YOU pronounce it is correct." No. If I'm asking, it's because I WANT to know how the author pronounces it. It might not matter towards understanding the story but it gives a comforting sense of depth.

I was close with most of these so that makes me happy. Hard to change how you pronounce the names when you've been saying it wrong since the book came out xD.

I thought Fela was pronnounced Feela... which i honestly like better so I'll keep pronouncing it that way haha

It's cool that for german readers pretty much of these names seem to be pronounced in the right way intuitively. They may have a bit of a german sound of course. But Edema Ruh, Felurian, Denna, Fela, Reshi, Cealdish and much more are very intuitively for german readers. But some of these names are horrible when spoken from a german speaker though :D

In the German audiobook "Threpe" is indeed pronounced "Thrappy" and I think it's great because I always imagined the man to be a kind of goofy little person with a hat.

I'm glad to find that I have gotten about 95% of the names right, and thus either you convey the names very well with the lettering or I'm just so damn smart:>

Lol Willem is an actual name in Dutch so that one always sounded like a normal every day life name because here in the netherlands it is. I also realised I say almost everything wrong😂😂

Slovakia mentioned. Now I can die in peace :)

Nick Podehl fixes the pronunciations for me :)

I only read The Name of the Wind in 2019. Reading Wise Mans Fear now. This has been very helpful.

Wait. Wait hold on. Letantha? Wasn't that the path of the sword tree? Bast studied the path of the sword tree?

Kote was also "Disaster" in Caeldish right? I'm not the only one who picked up on that...?

I love mentions of my country in places like this.

I love that I'm watching this even though I'm reading the first book in French which means that most of these prounounciations aren't how I or anyone French would read them, unless they have in mind that they are written by an English speaker.

Kvothe happens in my head but my tongue is confused. 😢😭

Cool video--some of it unexpected. However I feel I am still saying them all the way I've subconsciously ingrained them in my brain already! They won't change! I liked the mention of Toronto as example! (I am biased.)

Hey Patrick just completed The name of the wind and I am so excited to read the next one! I am an Indian and yes Devi is a Hindi and Sanskrit word and you pronounced it right. The meaning of the word is Divine or to be more exact Goddess.

Dude.. I miss reading those books.. Cant wait for the next book..

Rupert Degas will forever be correct in my book!

"Letantha is Bast's martial art" wut? o.O Bast is not from Ademre. Or did Kvothe teach him what he knew of it?

Yay! Thank you!!!!

I have been wondering how to pronounce Adem and Ademre for years. Now I know your vowel system! Thanks for the vidya

I always pronounced fela like fayla. Fella an old slang word for boy.

how do you pronounce "finish the third book?"

Ruh means "soul" in Turkish I thought it was translation when I read it for the first time, thinking as a soul gave me pleasure

This Guy is a Genius ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐧I love your books

I thought he took Aleph, from borges book El Aleph. is a good coincidence since it also have a kind of mythical/ spiritual meaning.

Cool. Was pronouncing some of them wrong but got others wright.

Thanks man. that was cool of you

Whew my brain somehow got almost all of them correct in my head...I'm glad I don't have to change my brain lol- thanks Pat. Who doesn't love the work of a true Word Wright??!!!

At the Brazilian version, Edema Ruh is Edena Ruh, with an N

Must remember, Pat is American, Pat is American, Pat is American. I'm pretty sure this is why I'm always wrong about names in fantasy books with leading vowels and things, and syllable stress, because I'm British. That long A at the start of Adem, Aleph etc. is just not what I would have thought at all. Although can't say I was at all surprised by Cealdish. I like that one, and always figured it was one of those words brought in from another language that people get wrong if they've only ever seen it written down. Even in-world, although they probably find it hard to go through life long enough to learn to read without hearing it mentioned judging by how people talk about Cealdish merchants and the like.

Really hoping that we get the last book sooner rather than later. 2020 needs a bright spot to look forward to

I just realized that I pronounce edema ruh correctly because of my language (turkish) 'ruh' means spirit so we actually pronouncing it like 'edema spirits' and I think that's cool as hell. Thanks Pat.

E'lir?

Sigh. I pride myself on my Kvothe-pronouncing skills, but I've been pronouncing Elodin wrong for 5 years. Gorramit. This was great though, thanks Pat!

I like the names in your book, you managed to create unique but kinda familiar names. I have read the books in german and heard them in english. Auri with her Hair reminded me of gold, aurum, so I can't change my pronunciation anymore, hope its ok ;).

Love that game.

i thought the correct pronunciation of edema ruh was quite natural and obvious, not sure what the people in the comments are talking about

Newarre. Kvothe lives in the middle of "nowhere" for those of you who missed that.

Como prenun pronunciass yo ya he terminuado el tercer libro?

since i'm german and my english wasn't great when i first read the books i pronounce a lot of the word german and i have to say it works quite well for some. i'm really fond of some of my old pronunciation and with some others i use either the ones mentioned in the video, or the ones used in the audiobooks.

I like my pronunciation more. I know this is the author but I put a foreign spin on the words in my head. Like "Ademre" has a L3atin sound to it.

8:00 @worldbuildersinc The way you pronounce Aleph is in fact your word. The Hebrew Aleph is pronounced Ah-leph

biggest surprises were (in my pronounciation) edEEma RAH, SEELdish, and aBENthy. it is nice to finally hear Kvothe's name right. i knew i was pronouncing it wrong, i just didnt know how lol

so awesome

I prefer Cealdish (Seal-Dish)

Tab-orlin sounds much less heroic and legendary than Tar-boar-lin the great.

“KayL-dish?” That’s my favorite way to say it in my head.

oh crap now i have to read the books again with those pronunciations in my head xD

You clearly said Usnea's name and I just played it out loud in my room. Are they going to come for me now? Or would I have to be the one saying it? I'm worried I need answers.

Sorry, "Sith" is in the original Star Wars novelisation, 1976. They were first on that one.

Omg, the most useful video on KZfaq 😂

Just recently decided to download the first two books on audible so that I could listen to them while working. It would have been awesome if the readers had this list of pronunciations, or even if the second reader had listened to the first book lol. To us OCD types, it’s immensely frustrating hearing them pronounced different from one book to the next. 😂