Re: CHAT: weird names

>From: Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...>

>
> > Perhaps I shouls explain what that name really means. "Ataiyu" is just a
> > common feminine given name, like "Jennifer" is among my generation of
> > English speakers.
>
>A beautiful name. May I borrow it for Velihas (country to the east of
>Valdyas, I know only a few words of the language and I'm unlikely to
>work it out in full, but the sound fits)?
Why thank you. Of course you can borrow it. Wow, a name I made up might be
used in a RPG half-way around the world by people I've never really met
because one of them liked the sound. It's a small world, la di da. :-)

>
> > The second name is the genitive (here irregular) form of
> > one's mother's final name, and the final name is one's father's final
>name.
> > So that makes me, is Asiteya at least, "of-the-earth of-at-hill
>naked-foot."
>
>Ah! Morhein   Brynie   Bar  Nabarsen :-)
>     earth-gen hill-loc foot NEG.shoe
Even spiffier! Morhein, hmm, a different aesthetic, but yes!

>
>    Irina
Jennifer


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