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NeumeIndil
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 Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: I need a name. |
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The character is female, originally of Rohan and a bit of a slut... ok, a big time slut. I'd like her name to mean something along the lines of "friend of many" or "friend of men". Can anybody offer some suggestions?
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: I need a name. |
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | The character is female, originally of Rohan and a bit of a slut... ok, a big time slut. I'd like her name to mean something along the lines of "friend of many" or "friend of men". Can anybody offer some suggestions? |
If she's from Rohan are you looking for it in Old English?
If so 'friend of men' would be; 'Manafréond', or possibly 'Manumblithe' (friendly to men) while 'friend of many' would be, 'Ceorllicfréond' (friend to everyone) or 'Eallblithe' or 'Eallfréond' (friend or friendly to all)
Hope anything helps,
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NeumeIndil
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Eallblithe just might work. Thank you.  Would that get a primary stress, like Eomer, Eowyn, Eomund etc.?
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picara
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| Wow, SpaceWeavil! Do you just know Old English or do you have a source for it? If you have a source and wouldn't mind sharing, I'd love to know what it is. |
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NeumeIndil
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Picara, I've used this one with some success for other research projects, though I don't know how it goes for fan ficdom. It's easy to search, that much I can attest to.
http://home.comcast.net/~modean52/oeme_dictionaries.htm
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SpaceWeavil
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| picara wrote: | | Wow, SpaceWeavil! Do you just know Old English or do you have a source for it? If you have a source and wouldn't mind sharing, I'd love to know what it is. |
I did a very small amount of it at school a long time ago, but I still have my books, which is what I tend to use. I've got a downloaded dictionary saved to my hard disk, but I don't know what URL I got it from. Basically I did a google search for Anglo-Saxon dictionary and found it.
This one I found later on and it looked quite interesting;
http://www.northvegr.org/lore/oldenglish/a.php
Another good site though, for languages in general or if you're looking for a specific resource for a specific one (including Quenya and Sindarin) is http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html
That one has a table of most world languages and some of the made up ones like the Tolkien ones and Klingon  and then has a list of resources for each.
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Killer sites!
Languages were my mom's strong point. And my sister's, too. Fortunately, my idiocies are confined to English.  |
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