Khadye

khadye

Out of Universe

✓ Canonical — Attested in canon.

Old Tongue

Etymology

• khadi (bone)
• -ye (abstraction suffix)

Noun

khadye

1. bones (metonymic); one's deep inner self

Attestations

dvodrelle duadh ninte khadye
"Two Rivers water in your bones"
— Nynaeve al'Meara

Notes

• Khadi is literal bone. The -ye suffix marks its use as a metonym for the person's deep inner self, the same metaphor English uses in "I feel it in my bones" or "bone-deep." The song is not saying there is literally water inside the skeleton — it is saying the Two Rivers is part of who Nynaeve is at the deepest level.