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

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Saturday, January 22, 2000, 1:43
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. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz "Piskie, Piskie, say Amen Doon on your knees and up agen." "Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend; Sit ye doon on mon's chief end." - Attributions unknown.