Re: Names - a plea

Dan Jones wrote:

>In the interests of furthering Rhêndrin's vocabulary, does anyone want a
>Rhêndrin name? If you know your name's etymology, tell me, and I can do you
>a Rhêndrin name, thus helping me create more roots. Maybe we could do a big
>name translation thing? I'm sure most of the newer members would like to
see
>their names rendered in their languages? Please?
>
Roger - a compound of Gmc. fame plus spear (hrod-gar); from another
names-list I seem to recall "famous with the sword/spear".
Frederick - compd. of Gmc. peace plus ruler (frid-ric)
    (I'll see what I can do with these in Kash, but most of their names are
not compounds.  See below)
    Mills - fairly obvious.  I suppose my ancestors owned a couple. (When my
great-grandfather was campaigning for the street-car franchise in Sioux
Falls SD in the early 1900's, he had handbills printed:  Mills on the river,
Mills on the streets.)
ObConlang:
Well, I knew it would be difficult:  "Sword" is sovare, "famous" is kakaya,
so you could form sovakrakaya, but it's way too long to be a decent given
name, even in the old days when warriors might have had such names.  Maybe
OK as an aristocratic family/surname.  Other possibilities:  sovare plus
tombar 'glory' sovatrombar 'sword of glory' or tombasovar 'glory of the
sword'.  Badly contracted totovar is better, but still. Toto or toci for
short?  Nyeeh.  (Truth to tell, I've never liked my name......though Dutch
Rutger has a certain class.)

Peace plus ruler:  One problem is I don't have a generic term for 'ruler'--
only karun, which is specifically a duke or minor kinglet.  Nurak is
'peace', so we could make karundurak 'ruler of peace' but it would be
presumptuous for a commoner like I to have such a name.

The last name at least is easy:  yunjunush (yunjun 'a mill' < old yurun
'place', cun 'sound of griding'; -sh inanim. plural).  But unlikely.
Kañunjun 'miller' would  be a more likely surname in use.