Re: Inventing names
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 23, 2004, 7:15 |
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Quoting Michael Potter <mhpotter@...>:
> (b) use simple, meaningless words that fit the phonotactics of your
> language (like Frodo in _Lord of the Rings_)
Actually, _Frodo_ is a "modification" of _Frothi_, a Germanic name which may
mean "The Fruitful". Even if that interpretation should be false, there's good
reasons to believe it originally meant something, since Germanic names normally
do.
Andreas
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