Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Matt Pearson wrote:

> So why did you choose the name "Grey"?  Is there an Aelya equivalent
> as well?  If you were to translate "Grey" into Tokana, you'd have to choose
> between "Hiem" (pronounced /hjEm/) and "Hemak".  "Hiem" means "light
> bluish grey", while "hemak" means "dark/ashen grey".
You'd be "Aidan Asel" in Valdyan - "Aidan" is a perfectly valid
Valdyan name, and "asel" means "grey, pale, drab" - the colour of
grey hair, dapple-grey horses, or the colourless shades of the
landscape at dawn. As the adjective follows the noun, your name would
mean "Grey Aidan", of course, like a nickname (there's an estate
agent called "Arin Nahad", "bald Arin").

I wish I could change my name so easily - "Irina" is not an official
name, I have to use my birth-name (which is a lot less pretty, and
doesn't fit me at all any more) in official documents.

   Irina

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