Names in the Ethuveraz

[extrapenguin]

Again, mostly TGE stuff originally posted in fragments on fail_fandomanon / tge_kink and then collected onto csathu-athmaza.

An Introduction to Surnames
In the Ethuveraz, men’s surnames are different to married women’s surnames are different to unmarried women’s surnames. (Goblin surnames have only one form.)

Man's suffix	Married woman's suffix	Unmarried woman's suffix
-ar	-aran	-in
-a	-o	-eth
-ezh	-ezho	-ezhen

The Aranin names are the most typical ones. Aoeth names are “still in use” among the common folk of the South, near goblin lands. Ezhoen names are used by the herders of the western plains.
Let’s take a look into all this with an enterprising, imaginary young lady with interesting marital prospects:
We have an aspiring Min Loru, whose birth-surname is irrelevant. She has always been enamored with the name Runo, and plans to give it to her firstborn daughter.
Now, our Min Loru is on the look-out for a man. The first of her suitors in our hypothetical scenario is the dear Lieutenant Beshelar. “Beshelar” is a perfectly legitimate Aranin name in the masculine form. (The stem would be beshel-.) Should our Min Loru choose to marry him, she would be known as Merrem Loru Beshelaran, and her even more hypothetical daughter would be Min Runo Beshelin.
If the prospect of becoming Merrem Beshelaran does not please her, Min Loru can look for another man. For the purposes of our example, she stumbles upon a man with an Aoeth name. Since we all like canon characters, we shall declare that the man in question is none other than Csevet Aisava (stem aisav-). If our Min Loru were to marry him, she would become Merrem Loru Aisavo, and her future daughter would be Min Runo Aisaveth.
Now, since all this fooling around with the Emperor’s nearest and dearest has attracted some attention, Lieutenant Telimezh is sent to investigate. Conveniently for our example, his surname is an Ezhoen one (stem telim-). He, too, shall therefore become a marital prospect for our Min Loru, who would then be known as Merrem Loru Telimezho, and the daughter she would birth would be Min Runo Telimezhen.

Given Names in the Ethuveraz 

In elven use, there are six endings: -a, -et, -is, -an, -o, and -u. In addition, some people with goblin ancestry have names that end with -er.

Like surnames, name suffixes depend on the bearer’s gender. -a, -et, and -is are exclusively used for men; -an and -o are exclusively used for women; and -u and -er are found on either.

The name suffix is appended onto a name-stem, most often a monosyllabic one. Some examples from each category:

-a
Maia, Thara (Celehar), Cala
mai-, thar-, cal-

-et
Csevet, Deret, Evet (Polchina)
csev-, der-, ev-

-is
Dazhis, Nurevis, Vorzhis (Gormened)
dazh-, nurev-, vorzh-

-an
Mireän, Arbelan, Loran (Duchenin)
mire-, arbel-, lor-

-o
Vedero, Stano, Csethiro
veder-, stan-, csethir-

-u
Kiru, Eiru (Berenar), Csoru
kir-, eir-, csor-

-er
Verer (Orthema),  Suler (Zhavanin), Thever (Sevraseched)
ver-, sul-, thev-


Generating Names
Using awkwords.

Go to awkwords: http://bprhad.wz.cz/awkwords/index.php
then, insert the following categories:

V (vowels)
e*107/a*105/o*47/i*40/u*20/ei*16/ai*7/ee*2

C (initial consonants)
*85/c*16/n*14/v*14/d*13/m*12/p*11/r*10/b*9/cs*7/s*7/t*7/th*7/l*6/zh*6/h*4/ch*3/k*3/br*2/st*2/cl/dr/kh/csth

K (medial consonants)
r*103/*101/n*78/v*61/s*56/l*55/m*43/th*32/d*25/zh*25/c*20/sh*20/ch*18/t*18/h*14/b*13/p*12/dr*8/z*8/nth*7/rn*6/vr*6/lch*5/rth*5/br*4/rch*4/st*4/sth*4/thm*4/kh*3/nm*3/rm*3/thv*3/nd*2/nn*2/rr*2/rs*2/rv*2/sm*2/lc/lm/ln/lsh/lt/lv/lzh/lth/mb/md/mn/mr/ns/nsh

S (suffixes for given names)
a/is/et/o/an/u

N (the endings of surnames for men)
ar/a/ezh

F (sounds found word-finally)
*128/s*29/n*25/r*12/t*7/z*2/th/m/d/b

and generate names using the following patterns: (note that you’ll have to correct for umlauts manually)

GIVEN NAMES:
CVK(V(K))S
Examples:
era hutho keiet orocu ametis stelea

SURNAMES:
CVK(V(K))N
veinar braca mulvaezh drerar daa aranezh

WORDS:
CVKV(KV)F
dise uran khevira zharola zhebi vases

Feel free to try out some other patterns!

Diareses
If two vowels appear consecutively (as opposed to being a diphthong), the latter must have a diaresis on it: Nedaö, Mireän, Aäno, Esterveriär.If one of the vowels is a diphthong, however, no diaresis is required: Maia, Ilinverieise.