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

Am 01/21 22:18  Irina Rempt yscrifef:
> 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 suspect that Aidan would be a prefectly good Brithenig also, as St.
Aidan could be included in a Cambriese lectionary.  How they would spell
and pronounce it I couldn't say at this stage.

"Gris" is a perfectly good Kemrese surname.  "Glas" also exists, but I
don't think I've seen it used as a surname in Brithenig.  It is used to
mean blue, except when Chomro talk about "lla erf las", the green grass.

- andrew.
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