Re: Inventing names
| From: | John Leland <lelandconlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 27, 2004, 4:53 |
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In a message dated 9/22/04 1:10:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
mhpotter@BELLSOUTH.NET writes:
<< The first thing I did was learn
what some of the names used in _our_ world mean. For example: according
to www.behindthename.com (the first site I found) Michael comes from the
Hebrew _Miyka'el_ meaning "who is like God?". Carsten (or Karsten) is
listed as a Low German form of Christian, which has a rather obvious
meaning.
I translated some of these names into Suvile, according to their
etymologies. >>
I have often used the same system in creating names in Rihana-ye, e.g.
Vejofaki "Horselover" for "Philip" (phil+hippos, I understand, in Greek).
John Leland
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