Title for Female Knights

[el-remmen]

Doña.

-Hyp.

How you do dat?

 

[Heckler]

How you do dat?

I was about to ask him the same thing.

 

[Gez]

On Windows, you do Windows Key-R, type "charmap" then enter, and then you pick and choose your letter and copy/paste it.

On Linux, it's customizable, by default it was Alt-Ctrl-n on my distro.

Dame just like it's spelled, rhymes with same.

If you want to be truer to the original pronunciation, it should be the a from before the Great Vowel Shift, so the a you have in Father. So, yes, closer to "damm."

And ma'am is short for madam, which is a bastardized form of "my dame." FYI.

No. It's what it means, but it's not bastardized. It is ma dame. That's French. The fully English translation would be milady, which in that case is indeed a bastardization of my lady.

 

[Kwitchit]

Dame only applies to female members of an order of knights, with the exception of the Order of the Garter, which uses Lady- however, the only female Knights of the Garter have also been monarchs, including the current Queen.

Lady is also used for a female Lord, or for the wife of a Lord or knight...

 

[Klaus]

How you do dat?

When you choose the language of your keyboard, instead of Englush (U.S.), choose English (International). Then you can write Doña, Señor, Über, Átomo and all kinds of accented words.

And, as Gez said, "Dame" is the French for "Lady". Madam is the contracted form of "ma dame", just like Milady is the contracted form of "my lady".

You could also go the Italian route and have Signor ([sin-YOR]) for Sir and Signora ([sin-YORA]) for Lady.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Damen, actually. One M.

D'oh - and I edited it IN the extra M because I didn't think it looked right...(I told ya iI was tired yesterday.).

 

[Jolly Giant]

Are there any example from real world history and/or legends or fantasy novels/comic books and the like, I might pilfer?

A historical example coming right up, although I'm not to sure how well it suits your setting:
Female Viking warriors were called shieldmaidens / shieldmays. An exceptionally skilled shieldmay could even be given the honorific Valkyrie.

FWIW.

 

[Hypersmurf]

How you do dat?

I always keep a link to Character Map in my Windows Start Menu.

-Hyp.

 

[el-remmen]

shieldmaidens / shieldmays.

I already use that for dwarven warrior women.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

For Macs, "ñ" results from the simple keyboard sequence: Alt + "n" + "n"

You do similar things like that for umlauts and other accent symbols.