The comb is the word.
You must be a true vates if you told her some years ago that you'd ask me in 2019My mother (who is a story-teller) told it to me a couple of times, some years ago. It was she who was wondering about the possible meaning of the name and as I couldn't find it in the dictionary I told her I'd ask you.
Sorry for not writing in German but my head is already smoking with Du Cange references and I have neither the courage nor quite the time right now to piece together sentences in a language I'm not proficient in.
Vates ist ein cool Wort.You must be a true vates if you told her some years ago that you'd ask me in 2019 .
Ich kann “cool” und “cooles” sagen.Ja, das ist ein cooles Wort.
I told her that today.You must be a true vates if you told her some years ago that you'd ask me in 2019
Ich kann nicht cool sagen? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cool#German
I told her that today.
What happened some years ago was her telling me the tale.
Denke ichDas Wort ist cool.
Aber
Das ist ein cooles Wort.
Ich denke.
I didn't think of inverting the word order because it seemed like a complete sentence at first sight, but I suppose it's implying "(Das — was ich oben geschrieben habe) denke ich"?