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: I took the name from an actual place from southeast Prussia eons ago. Just was following orders. See the mention here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galindians#Eastern_Galindians. Maybe Galindis? But you can name it whatever you wanna, I was just trying to meet your specs. Could be named anything-- I've just been looking through Prussian language dictionaries and history all day so let me know if that's not the best way to do this. -[[User:Mattie|Mattie]] | : I took the name from an actual place from southeast Prussia eons ago. Just was following orders. See the mention here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galindians#Eastern_Galindians. Maybe Galindis? But you can name it whatever you wanna, I was just trying to meet your specs. Could be named anything-- I've just been looking through Prussian language dictionaries and history all day so let me know if that's not the best way to do this. -[[User:Mattie|Mattie]] | ||
| − | All day? What a wasted day. ;) its fine, its fine. *waves hands *-gm | + | ::All day? What a wasted day. ;) its fine, its fine. *waves hands *-gm |
| − | : It appears it's actually a baltic rus name, not germanic, but I can sense your frustration with my niggling. ;) -gm | + | ::: It appears it's actually a baltic rus name, not germanic, but I can sense your frustration with my niggling. ;) -gm |
| + | :::: The frustration is more one of someone who tried his best but still failed without understanding how to avoid it in the future. When you say "Prussian" do you really mean German? Or do you mean Old Prussian (like I thought) or something else? In [http://www.suduva.com/prussian/g.htm Old Prussian], the ''--AI'' suffix was actually common, so I guess you don't mean that? No hand waving allowed :) give me some better guidelines so I can pick better themed names. If German is better, then that's super easy to do. I'm going to be making these right and left so I'd like them to have the right feel. -[[User:Mattie|Mattie]] | ||
Revision as of 09:42, 16 May 2011
Hm. Any way we can get a name that ends with a consonant rather than a vowel. Strange request, I realize. I like the other two names a lot. Vowel endings, especially -i, are associated strongly with the Ubrekti family of languages, of which the Fresian group is not. I don't get too much into conlang, really, but I figure where I've actually given it some thought. . . -gm
- I took the name from an actual place from southeast Prussia eons ago. Just was following orders. See the mention here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galindians#Eastern_Galindians. Maybe Galindis? But you can name it whatever you wanna, I was just trying to meet your specs. Could be named anything-- I've just been looking through Prussian language dictionaries and history all day so let me know if that's not the best way to do this. -Mattie
- All day? What a wasted day. ;) its fine, its fine. *waves hands *-gm
- It appears it's actually a baltic rus name, not germanic, but I can sense your frustration with my niggling. ;) -gm
- The frustration is more one of someone who tried his best but still failed without understanding how to avoid it in the future. When you say "Prussian" do you really mean German? Or do you mean Old Prussian (like I thought) or something else? In Old Prussian, the --AI suffix was actually common, so I guess you don't mean that? No hand waving allowed :) give me some better guidelines so I can pick better themed names. If German is better, then that's super easy to do. I'm going to be making these right and left so I'd like them to have the right feel. -Mattie
- It appears it's actually a baltic rus name, not germanic, but I can sense your frustration with my niggling. ;) -gm
- All day? What a wasted day. ;) its fine, its fine. *waves hands *-gm
