Re: Inventing names

John Leland wrote:
> 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
Sure.  Guess what _Melroch 'Aestan_ is supposed to mean in Sindarin!
_mel-_ "friend", _roch-_ "horse", _gaestan-_ "blessed"

(Tolkien first glossed *GAYAS- as "dread", then as "bless", so make your
pick!  Actually I triangulate this to mean "taboo" as the original
meaning of Latin _sacer_.)

My son Philip William is called _Melroch Merthol_ (_mer-_ "desire"
_thol-_ "helmet".)

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