Re: Personal names (was Re: Story - TCOAIW)

Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
>        ObConlang: how do you deal with this in your conlangs? Do
>masculine and feminine names follow any special rule to distinguish ones
>from the other?
>
I haven't done much with personal names in Kash, but they are usually
derived from adjectives or other nouns.  At present, there's no way to
distinguish male/female, though of course _they_ know.  Of the ones I do
have (and they're used over and over in my example sentences), there are no
hard and fast rules of derivation. Cf.--

1. çenji ['SEndZi] (male) < çenjik 'serious; stolid, stoic' (The female
version would be çeçin (probably ['SESin] by analogy, it ought to be
[SeSin])

2. mina (female) < minda 'happy, smiling' (The male version will be mita)

3. erek ['ErEk]-- exclusively male, as it derives from erengen, a high naval
rank on the order of Captain, Admiral, Commodore (erengen itself = e
'def./specifying article' plus rengen, no meaning assigned yet (archaic
"lead, command" or perhaps "carry"?) )

I see I made a small list, but they are subject to change:
MALE  foran, kiyok, oram
FEMALE, ipuli, tama, yosak, kemet, usala (this last, a famous queen, my
_hommage_ to Ursula K. Le Guin) (and I don't like yosak, kemet here; I'm
beginning to think only male names will have medial/final stops, female ones
continuants and nasals.  Ah, rules arising as we speak....)