Chlouvānem/Names: Difference between revisions

 

* The common name ''Bandyē'' has ''Bandityāvi''.

* ''Lākhnī'' keeps the '''ī''' but shortened and therefore has ''Lākhniyāvi''.

* ''Andūra'', ''Ndā'', ''Ndarī'', ''Andīra'', ''Gāndārīn'' — from ''andṛ-'' (to build) or ''andarīn'' (builder)

Toponymic surnames are mostly derived from small places and usually end either in '''-i''' (the genitive form) or '''-(y)ai''', rarely with '''-ųu'''. Examples include, from common nouns, ''Jāṇyai'', ''Jāṇųu'', ''Amašai'', ''Hali'', ''Paɂītiai''; from proper nouns, ''Kahašai'', ''Pārindālyai'', ''Nurħalini'', ''Kārṣamūli''.

While typically it is the matronymic-derived surnames (and sometimes the placename-derived ones) that are variable, these suffixes have also been applied to other kinds of surnames - an example being the late singer-songwriter Lālašvātyāvi Kāmilñaryāh ''Turabayān'', whose unmarried surname was Kašahitræmīs (his mother was called Šulegāvi Kašahitræša ''Lālašvāti''), of clear Toyubeshian origin (cf. the existing, invariable modern surnames Kašahitah and Kašahitra).

In most areas of the Inquisition, men take their wife's surname (in the married male form, if variable) when they marry - so for example a hypothetical Martayināvi Lantakæmīs ''Kāltarvān'' who marries the hypothetical Namihūlšāvi Hulyāyæša ''Lairē'' will be known as Martayināvi Hulyāyærās ''Kāltarvān'' after marrying. Their son Dalaigin's full name will be Lairyāvi Hulyāyæmīs ''Dalaigin''.

Birth surnames of married people, if needed to be cited (such as, for example, in encyclopaedical entries), are listed after all names and followed by ''gṇyauyų'' (ablative case of ''gṇyauya'', birth), often shortened to ''gṇų''; taking the previous example it would be Martayināvi Hulyāyærās ''Kāltarvān'', Lantakæmīs gṇyauyų.

Names inherited by the Proto-Lahob culture, or the earliest Chlouvānem names, are usually made by two elements compounded together (a kind of bahuvrihi compound), like for example the male names ''Gāṇakvyāta ''"steel hero" or ''Hånisrajñās ''"friend of toucans", or the female ones ''Martayinām ''"city protector" or ''Ñaiṭasamin'' "star child". There are also names made by a single Chlouvānem word, like ''Lairē ''"sky", ''Yānāh'' “innocence” (both female) or ''Hånia ''"toucan" (unisex but mostly female).

Anyway, possibly the majority of nationwide Chlouvānem names are not inherited from Proto-Lahob, but originally from cultures of the central Nīmbaṇḍhāra plain in prehistoric times, many without a known meaning. Such names include for example the female ''Hæniląuya ''and ''Namihūlša'' or the male ''Lælicham ''and ''Nūkthalin''. Other names with a known origin are for example the female ''Kūldendēla ''or ''Naryekaiṣa'' and the male ''Kāltarvān ''or ''Kāljivaṃṣān'', all of Ancient Yodhvāyi origin (once spoken in the current-day dioceses of ʡalyākñijaiṭa and Yodhvāya). A few nationwide given names also have Ancient Kūṣṛmāthi or other origins, but they're much rarer.

This is part of a pattern that sees most male nouns being grammatically of lotus gender and most female ones of the parrot one. Only a few nouns are unisex, for example ''Kailnenya'' (though female in the vast majority of cases), ''Terintān'', or those ones formed with unisex names, like all of those with ''-samin'' (child). ''-likā'' or ''-mitā'' are typically used to form female names from male ones, while male ones are formed by removing the final ''-a'' of a female name (if possible) and adding ''-gin''. There are, however, many exceptions to this rule.  

 

# Kāltarvān

# Dalaigin

# Khālbayān

# Kāljivaṃṣān

# Hūlamastān

 

| Bandyē || Old Cambhaugrāyi || beauty of the wind ||  

| Dalaigana || Ancient Kāṃradeši || <small>(probably derived from ''Dalaigin'')</small> || Female

| Hulāblenīn || Chlouvānem || (s)he who makes good choices || Unisex

| Jæhimīnta || Aṣasṝkhami || sage ||  

| Mæmimausa || unknown/Anc. Yodhvāši || ''mæmi-'' unknown; ''-mausa'' from the Anc. Yodhvāši word for "beautiful" ||  

| Ñaiṭasamin || Chlouvānem || star child || Unisex

| Yārachilgēn || Ancient Yodhvāši<ref>Coined in the late Third Era for the main character of a novel by writer Ñælihairāvi Kaitakalīm ''Lileikhura''.</ref> || sky girl ||

! Name !! Origin !! Meaning !! Notes

| Bhārahūlgin || Chl. + Old Cambhaugrāyi || ''bhāra-'' from Chl. ''bhārmatah'' (lion); ''-hūlgin'' Old Cmbh. for "man" ||

| Bradhmin || Ancient Kāṃradeši || <small>(variant of ''Bradhma'')</small> ||

| Braivaren || Ancient Kāṃradeši || carrying great hope ||  

| Dalaigin || Ancient Kāṃradeši || having light ||  

| Daṃdhigūlan || Ancient Kāṃradeši || blue star ||  

| Dulmadin || Ancient Kāṃradeši || lucky, of a miracle ||

| Gāṇakvyāta || Chlouvānem || iron hero ||  

| Gārindelgīn || Old Cambhaugrāyi || good friend ||  

| Hilvarghom || Ancient Namaikehi || famous warrior ||  

| Hulāblenīn || Chlouvānem || (s)he who makes good choices || Unisex

| Hūlamastān || colspan=2 | unknown ||  

| Hūrtalgān || Ancient Yodhvāši || man of gems ||

| Hūyurhūlgin || Old Cambhaugrāyi || black man ||

| Hånigin || Chlouvānem || toucan <small>(variant of ''Hånya'')</small> ||

| Kāljivaṃṣān || Ancient Yodhvāši || sage man ||  

| Kāltarvān || Ancient Yodhvāši || painted man ||  

| Khālbayān || Ancient Yodhvāši || brown man ||

| Khāltiṃhāgyan || Old Cambhaugrāyi || companion spirit ||  

| Klætsplyan || colspan=2 | unknown <small>(probably from the Near East)</small> ||

| Kuretsupan || Toyubeshian || strong boy ||

| Lāyašāgin || colspan=2 | <small>(male version of ''Lāyašvāti'')</small> ||

| Nūkthalin || colspan=2 | unknown ||  

| Ñaiṭasamin || Chlouvānem || star child || Unisex

| Ṣarṣilhāgyan || Old Cambhaugrāyi || hunting spirit ||  

| Ṣarṣilhūlgin || Old Cambhaugrāyi || hunting man ||

| Švaragūlan || Ancient Kāṃradeši || star of the sea ||

| Terintān || Ancient Yodhvāši || fast jump || Unisex

| Turabayān || Ancient Yodhvāši || brown step ||  

| Turgandām || Ancient Yodhvāši || step into the dark ||  

| Yāmurtān || Ancient Yodhvāši || fast kick ||  

Names of foreign people, and foreigners that become Chlouvānem citizens, always get their name converted according to the official Chlouvānem equivalent; note, though, that this mostly applies to Western and Skyrdegan people. As most names from other cultures have no Chlouvānem equivalent but may have different forms depending on the language (cf. on Earth "John, Iōannēs, João..."), there is an Inquisitorial list of Chlouvānem equivalents for most common names. (Note that sometimes the common origin of two names was not recognized - for example Cerian ''Imúbánidu'' and Holenagic ''Hmiurvaisd'' [m̥ʲurjɛʃt] have the same origin, but correspond to adapted Chlouvānem ''Imūbaiṇḍus'' and ''Mūryæṣṭas'' respectively, with Nivarese-derived ''Amuvranṣus'' making it a triplet.)

| Imūbaiṇḍus || Male || Cer. ''Imúbánidu'', Bes. ''Imubbanxu'', Nrd. ''Imurbaig''

| Riausnas || Male || Niv. ''Rivàussos'' (ANiv. ''Rivaōsonos''), Evangelic Velken ''Rjásons'' > Kal. ''Řáson''

Foreigners that become Chlouvānem citizens always have a matronymic added, and the same is usually done also for and by people who have business with the Chlouvānem-speaking world or are Yunyalīlti (as, for example, the incumbent Minister of Agriculture of Holenagika, Qyqshdir Hgoabein [ˈqyqsir ˈɣɔbeɲ] is usually referred to as Ħålikāvi Gåbeña ''Khyukṣṭih''). Other people are simply known by their Chlouvānemized names but without an added matronymic - like incumbent Cerian Prime Minister Pétéro Bafín is referred to as Bafīn ''Paṣṭras''.

The Chlouvānem informal name (''laltihaloe'', from ''lalteh'' (friend) and ''haloe'' (name)) is the form of the given name used in many particularly informal settings. As with all things informal in the Chlouvānem-speaking world, there is no uniform rule because they are deeply influenced by the local vernacular and, more often than not, they are never even used when speaking Chlouvānem as such kind of conversations may often be exclusively in the vernacular.<br/>However, there is a simple pattern that can be used in order to derive pan-Inquisitiorial informal names from given names: either the first or the stressed syllable of the name is taken, with optional vowel changes (usually ''a'' to ''æ'', ''æ'' and ''ai'' to ''e'', ''e'' to ''i'', and often ''o'' to either ''a'' or ''u''), and ''-ī'' for female informal names or ''-em'' for male ones. Female names often shift post-tonic velars, ''h'', or ''s'', to palatals.<br/>As different syllables may be taken, there are even for this pattern different possibilities. Some examples (usually, the more common a name is and the more informal forms it has):

: ''Martayinām'' [ˌmaˤ.ta.(j)iˈnaːm] → ''Mærī'', ''Mætī'', ''Matī'', ''Næmī'', ''Nāmī''

: ''Mæmihūmya'' [ˌmɛ.mʲiˈɦuː.mja] → ''Memī'', ''Hūmī'', ''Mæmī''

: ''Kælidañca'' [ˌkɛ.ɴ̆iˈdaɲ.c͡ɕa] → ''Kelī'', ''Kælī'', ''Dæñī'', ''Dañī''

: ''Kāltarvān'' [ˌkaːɴ̆.taɐ̯ˈʋãː] → ''Kālem'', ''Kælem'', ''Vānem'', ''Vænem'', ''Kāltem''

: ''Khālbayān'' [ˌkʰaːɴ̆.baˈjãː] → ''Khælem'', ''Khālem'', ''Yænem'', ''Yānem''

: ''Læhimausa'' [ˌɴ̆ɛ.ɦiˈmaʊ̯.sa] → ''Læšī'', ''Læhī'', ''Lešī'', ''Maušī'', ''Mūšī'', ''Mūsī''

* If the person spoken of is respected (of higher rank), then the appropriate formula is used the first time they're mentioned, then the norm is to use a shorter form - in this case, a form like ''yamei Læhimausa murkadhāna'' is accepted, while it is not when speaking directly to that person. The higher rank that person is, usually the longer it takes to completely shift to a shorter form — e.g. while the Great Inquisitor will not be referred to every time as ''nanū aveṣyotāra lallāmaha Hæliyǣšāvi yamei Dhīvajhūyai Lairē camimurkadhāna lāma'', it will not probably get shorter than ''nanū aveṣyotāra yamei lallāmaha'' ([Her] Respectable Most Excellent Highness) or ''nanū aveṣyotāra lallāmaha camimurkadhāna'' ([Her] Most Excellent Highness, the Great Inquisitor);

* The use of the bare given name (or matronymic or surname) and of the informal name follow the same guidelines as when talking to that person. Note that, though, in a family context it will be more common to use the names of older family members in order to disambiguate about them (e.g. ''Amabu paṣmeinā ukula Læhimausa paṣmeinā prišniliukula no'' (Grandma Amabu has spoken and Grandma Læhimausa has answered [her]).