Re: OT: Anthroponymics

Carsten Becker inquired:
> OBConlang: Are there special naming patterns in your
> conlangs? My Ayeri people go by happily with [family name]
> [first name(s)].
>
Ordinary Kash have {given name} {family name}. I haven't delved much into
family names-- haven't ever come up with a really satisfying system. For the
moment, many of them begin with an- or ana- 'child (of)...', e.g. anerengen
'child of the admiral'-- but the admiral held that rank so long ago that
nowadays the name is essentially meaningless, like "Miller" in Engl.  Family
names could also be place names, etc. etc.  Just as here, there was probably
a time in history when people were required, for bureacratic reasons, to
adopt an identifying family name.

Same for the hereditary titled nobility, except that in some cases their
official "name" is the area with which they're associated, but even they may
also have a family name too. Their childrens' names include a numerical that
indicates the order of birth-- mesa, rona, sina, prana resp. for 1st, 2nd,
3rd, 4th and later.

Gwr: {clan}{family}{given name(s)}-- the givens may be 1 syll, or 2-3 syll.
compounds-- I think I devised Cham Ki No Am (famous linguist) a while back,
and Fyaq Ling Beng (the guy who got electrocuted while flying a kite in a
storm, and is credited with discovering electricity).

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