Re: Inventing names
| From: | Tamas Racsko <tracsko@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 17:05 |
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 Carsten Becker <naranoieati@BEC...> wrote:
> European names are rather short, only one or two syllables mostly
... due to later phonetic changes. E.g. Carsten ~ Karsten (2 syll.)
< Christian (3 syll.) < Christianus (4 syll.), Matthew (2 syll.) <
Matthaios (3 syll.) < Mattithyahu (4 syll.), etc.
Probably you also should make secondary phonetical contractions in
descriptive names resulting shorter "synchronically" meaningless
names.