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Re: What's in a name, anyway?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:23:56 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Stacey writes:
> If your looking for a northwestern european flavour then take a look at
> http://www.prenticenet.com/news/2001/english_place_name_suffixes.htm
> celtic, roman, saxon and viking name suffexes mix and match them or add them
> to other appropriate words...
Hmm. That's a good list. Living in New England, and having used the suffix
"Ham" for at least one of my villages, I often wondered what that actually
meant... I see it in the Saxon section as meaning "village"...
Back to Dave's question about inspiration for place names, I lean towards
the historic, and thus avoid the apostrophe ('), as I find that a little
overdone, especially in the Sci-Fi worlds. (Overuse of an idea in Sci-Fi or
Fantasy can quickly make something cheesy.)
The place names I have used just kind of come to me, but they clearly have
been influenced by the 'sound' of real-world names. In my Billundian realm,
which is suppose to be culturally similar to England, I have places like
Baimbury, Castleton, Wothenham, and Lewster. Other realms I have on my
world have different cultures though, so I have names like Abrinske,
Dodusta, Maxis Hoc, Al-Rahan, etc. etc.
When I have a writer's-naming-block, I usually look to a good foreign
language dictionary (I often start with German, as my MOC Castle names
indicate). I look for two words that in some way describe or symbolize the
place being named, and then form them together (modifying slightly for what
sounds good) into one word.
Cheerio,
-Hendo
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| If your looking for a northwestern european flavour then take a look at (URL) roman, saxon and viking name suffexes mix and match them or add them to other appropriate words by the way, the list is a bit misleading as most of the celtic words are (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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