Re: names in conlangs

Yes, the rest of the name is placed inthe genitive
case. An example is:

Donnchadh mac Fearchair

"Donncahdh son of Fearchar"

or
 Fearchar mac Domhnaill

"Fearchar son of Domhnall"

-Elliott


> Re: Gaelic names. If "Mac" just means "son", does
> that mean that the
> rest of the name is placed in the genitive case?
>
> I guess if M'kei adopted an Earth name he might be
> Ralph McKay. :)
>
> On 6/8/06, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > Citerar veritosproject@GMAIL.COM:
> >
> > > how do you g*s do names in your langs?
> >
> > Tairezan names are personal name+family name.
> Foreign names are usually left
> > alone in this respect, but of course commonly
> mispronounced horribly. What
> > you
> > usually get is a transcription into the maidzhen
> klaish (the letters
> > Tairezazh
> > is written in), which then gets pronounced as if
> it were a Tairezazh word.
> > The
> > alphabet contains a number of letters and
> diacritics that aren't used when
> > writing native Tairezazh words, but may occur in
> foreign names; most of
> > these
> > are just ignored in Tairezazh ponunciation, others
> get pronounced like other
> > letters according to traditional rules. Tradition
> also demands that the |i|
> > and
> > |u| letters when endowed with length markers get
> pronounced as [ei] and
> > [ou],
> > mimicking the historical development within
> Tairezazh itself.
> >
> > My name would become _Andreas Johanson_ ['andrEas
> 'OansOn], |j| and |h|
> > being
> > silent characters that are used to write [j] and
> [h] in other languages
> > using
> > the maidzhen klaish.
> >
> >
> >
> > Meghean-speakers just have a single, personal
> name. Foreign names are
> > haphazardly bashed into conformance with Meghean
> phonetics, and then spelt
> > accordingly. Since Meghean spelling often allows
> several ways of writing the
> > same sound, variant spellings of foreign names
> abound.
> >
> > When needing to distinguish bearers of the same
> name, recourse is taken to
> > occupation, notable physical traits, place of
> residence, etc. In the case of
> > princely personages, the genitive of their
> principatility is usually added.
> >
> > Chances are, they'd refer to the current American
> president as _Georgebuche
> > Ameirica_ ['dZordzebuSe a'mejrika] "Georgebush of
> America", a president
> > being a
> > kind of prince as far as they're concerned. Then
> again, _Dubea_ [dubja]
> > sounds
> > more like a Meghean name ...
> >
> > _Georgebuche_ could incidentally just as well be
> spelt _Deordebuse_ - it'd
> > be
> > pronounced the same.
> >
> >                                           Andreas
> >
>
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>

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