Re: OFF: Name for a cat

FFlores wrote:
>
> I need a name for her. Could be in any language, natural or
> constructed. Could you help me please? She's black and white
> (black tail, some of her back, and around her eyes; white
> elsewhere), and she has a pink nose and pink fingerpads
> (how do you call those things that make footprints??).
>
> My mother wants to name her Clara, but it doesn't fit her.
My friend's orange tabby cat is named "Claire". I don't think it's so
bad to use human names for animals.

> Me and my brother wanted a Japanese name, but most of them
> are too long -- and I want it to mean something. I looked
> up a dictionary and found _taikoo_, which means 'light pink'
> (and also 'archduke'!). What do you think? Can you do better?
> I can't promise you a kitty as a reward... unless you pay
> for international shipment of the poor thing. :P
>
Our white cat is named "Kotatsu", which is the heated table the Japanese
use in the winter. He is named for the "Kotatsu Neko" in the "Urusei
Yatsura" stories by Rumiko Takahashi. That cat is white, and first
appeared during a snowstorm, just as our cat did.

Name length? All of our cats have received Japanese-style nicknames:
Da-chan, Min-chan and Ko-chan, although they don't answer to those.

I looked up "taikoo" in my dictionary and it said "yellowish". This
dictionary is a bit old, so maybe the word has shifted meaning. There is
also momo-iro, which is literally "peach-colored". You could just go
with "momo" = "peach".

In my Old Arvandran conlang, cat is "talmar".

Laurie
milo@winternet.com
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