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01-23-1999, 03:28 AM #1OlesensGuest
Realm Names
This is mostly a question to Ed,
When the realms were being named, did you guys use some non-english
languages for thier names? For example, Graben means "ditch" in German,
and tod means "death." Did these names have any relation to thier
realms, or were they just random words thrown together? Are all of them
full words, or were some of they modified to sound good? A few other
examples for the rest of you, some of them are kinda close and my
translator thingy does infinitives only (I think) so they might be
close.
Zweilunds: Two Lands
Mude (Muden): Sleepy
Daumen (Dauren): Thumb
Roh (Rohmarch): Raw
Treu (Truecht) : Faithful
As you can see, some of these are just shots in the dark. Maybe Ed can
tell us more about what's behind the names across Cerilia.
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01-23-1999, 11:49 AM #2Kai BesteGuest
Realm Names
> This is mostly a question to Ed,
>
> When the realms were being named, did you guys use some non-english
> languages for thier names? For example, Graben means "ditch" in German,
> and tod means "death." Did these names have any relation to thier
> realms, or were they just random words thrown together? Are all of them
> full words, or were some of they modified to sound good? A few other
> examples for the rest of you, some of them are kinda close and my
> translator thingy does infinitives only (I think) so they might be
> close.
>
> Zweilunds: Two Lands
it's more like "two islands" ("Eiland" means, well, "island", almost
the same pronounciation)
> Mude (Muden): Sleepy
> Daumen (Dauren): Thumb
> Roh (Rohmarch): Raw
Rohr (Rohrmarch) also means "pipe"
> Treu (Truecht) : Faithful
there are quite a few more:
Drache (Drachenward): dragon
Allesrecht: "mir ist alles recht" means "I don't care at all" (my
personal favourite)
Auslauf means "drain" (as a physical structure only)
Musbrahlen sounds like "ich muss prahlen", "I *have* to boast"
Elfhaben means "to have an elf"
there are quite a few more I can't remember right now, I have to dig
out my HOTGB map and have a look at the province names.
All the Brecht names, even the ones without any "real" meaning, sound
very German.
> As you can see, some of these are just shots in the dark. Maybe Ed can
> tell us more about what's behind the names across Cerilia.
IIRC Rich once told us that he looked at a map and then made up names
that sounded similar.
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01-23-1999, 01:48 PM #3Sindre BergGuest
Realm Names
Olesens wrote:
> This is mostly a question to Ed,
>
> When the realms were being named, did you guys use some non-english
> languages for thier names? For example, Graben means "ditch" in
> German,
> and tod means "death." Did these names have any relation to thier
> realms, or were they just random words thrown together? Are all of
> them
> full words, or were some of they modified to sound good? A few other
> examples for the rest of you, some of them are kinda close and my
> translator thingy does infinitives only (I think) so they might be
> close.
>
> Zweilunds: Two Lands
> Mude (Muden): Sleepy
> Daumen (Dauren): Thumb
> Roh (Rohmarch): Raw
> Treu (Truecht) : Faithful
>
> As you can see, some of these are just shots in the dark. Maybe Ed
> can
> tell us more about what's behind the names across Cerilia.
>
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> As have been mentioned before here on this list, at least the names for
Rjurik is actually
a big load of crap, for us Scandinavians anyway. I did remember that one
player had an immense belly laugh when he heard of the name Trondelaag.
As far as I can remember he was born there, and found it rather amusing.
First of all -oya they use in some names, and that is a "perversion" of
the Norwegian "-øy" or "-øya" which simply means Island. -fjord means
jsut that a Fjord or in english it's often called a bay (?). So if you
take a look at just the places with these suffixes (-oya and -fjord)
you'll se that they don't fit in any way...
Sindre
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01-23-1999, 02:27 PM #4OlesensGuest
Realm Names
> . -fjord means
> jsut that a Fjord or in english it's often called a bay (?). So if you
> take a look at just the places with these suffixes (-oya and -fjord)
> you'll se that they don't fit in any way...
Well kinda. A fjord and a bay are kinda different. Fjords are usually a lot
more impressive and have very steep sides and are very deep for their width
(over 300 feet deep for something that is maybe a half a mile wide.. Bays can
range from areas surrounded by flat land or by mountains. Fjords are glacial
creations and I think they're only in Scandinavia, although there might be some
in Canada or Alaska (I dunno).
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01-23-1999, 05:16 PM #5
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>languages for thier names? For example, Graben means "ditch" in German,
>and tod means "death." Did these names have any relation to thier
Graben also means "grave". Grabentod certainly has a nice name :)
One of these days, I'll get around to translating the Khinasi names (though I suspect most of them are just random "Arabic-sounding" words).
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01-25-1999, 04:01 PM #6TriztGuest
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Kai Beste wrote:
> IIRC Rich once told us that he looked at a map and then made up names
> that sounded similar.
Most of those names where never altered, so pick up your atlas and you
will find most of those places.
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01-26-1999, 04:19 AM #7JulesMrshn@aol.coGuest
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In a message dated 1/23/99 8:12:57 AM Central Standard Time, sindre@vision-
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