Re: ,Language' in language name?

From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
> Hi!
>
> How many people's conlang names contain the word for ,language' in
> that language?  I suspect that's around 100%, right? :-)
>
> Mine does, at least. :-)
Ethnonyms and 'genonyms' mostly here.

"Hadwan" was originally a deformation of a word meaning language in an earlier
revision of it.  But the actual name is Kirómbos /kIru:m"bUs/--which strictly
refers to any of the fourth race (terras), Hadwan-speaking or not--from {kiróps}
"griffin" (kiro:b-mo-s > kiro:mbo-s with a regular -bm- > -mb- change.

The younger Hadwan languages don't exactly have native names yet, only English
names describing general location:  Atlantic, Iberian, Germanic, American,
Baltic.

Rami/Ramyo also only refers to a person of the rami race.

Henaudute means "yellowtail".  The reasons for this are not entirely known,
although {hena} (actually heena /h&:na/) "yellow" is the general epithet of the
empire... (Possibly after the legendary first king Henate?)


    *Muke!