I swear on Queen Alyse’s grave that I didn’t know this.

Well, perhaps I did pick it up somewhere along the way when reading linguistics under the table in boring geography classes (or above the table in boring English classes; my teacher encouraged it as long as my grades stayed above 8-out-of-10 and what I read was in English) but it wasn’t a conscious choice, unlike orla “eagle” which I borrowed shamelessly from Church Slavonic because it analysed perfectly in Ilaini as “grand master bird” or “magic bird”.

But if I’d been aware of this connotation, I’d probably have gone out of my way to call him something else.