Elven Names for Everyone!

[PhirePhreak]

Dustin -- from Old Norse "Thor's stone'; Quenya Eru (Thor was a god, and Eru is the general Quenya for god), ondo 'stone', so your name would be Eruondo.

--Eruntalon

[SilvrThorn]

I have a think a difficult name its weird to behin with-JayLee. Weird mother and no not asian or from the south.

[Terr]

Oh, this is freaky.

My first name is a variant of Darius, who was a king, and is loosely translated (persian) as 'preserver'... actually, you can bend it several ways IMO. But anyway, I first checked 'king'. High-King in quenya is Tararan. Terr is short for Terran (long story)...

Terr
Terran.
Teraran.

Creepy.

[PhirePhreak]

Kezil--> I hate you. I better get some AP's for this...

Andy -- from Andrew, so: Andrew -- 'manly', Quenya wea, 'manly', switch the w for a v, make it masculine, and you get Veon or Veo

Ben -- Benjamin: from Hebrew 'son of the right hand' and also 'son of the south'; unfortunately Quenya word for 'south hyarmen is related to hyarya 'left', while Hebrew for 'right hand' is related to 'south', but Hyarion (-ion 'son) works okay.

Vicky -- from Victoria, feminine of Victor, from the Latin 'conqueror', mapar 'seizer', thus Mapar for the masculine, Mapare for the feminine.

James -- from the Hebrew 'supplanter'; Quenya kaita 'to place', then form encaita 'replace' close to the meaning of 'supplant', so possibly Encaitar

Irene -- from the Greek 'peace'; Quenya [i]sére[/b] or série

Mara -- from the Hebrew 'bitter'; Quenya SÃ*ra 'bitter'

Batiah -- no equivolence that I care to find

Meagan -- from the Celtic 'pearl'; Quenya marilla 'pearl', thus Marille

Rose -- 'rose' (of course); Quenya losille 'rose', so Losille

Gary -- from German 'spear'; Quenya ecco 'spear, Ecco will suffice.

Michael -- of unknown origin 'Who Is Like God?'; Quenya man 'who', ve 'like', Eru 'God', so Manveru

Shannon -- from the Gaelic 'wise river'; Quenya saila 'wise', cel 'go, run (about water)', so Sailacel

Lanny -- I'm unsure what the root name for this one would be...

Laguna -- unsure on this one as well...

Leslie -- Old English 'meadow-land'; Quenya salque 'grass', -ndor 'land', thus Salquendor

William -- Old German 'will + helmet'; Quenya selma 'will', cassa 'helmet', so Selmacasso

Alyssa -- unknown origin 'of noble birth', Quenya kallo 'noble man', nosta 'birth', so Kallanosta

Bert -- from Herbert, Old German 'army/host + bright'; Quenya rimbe 'host', calima 'bright', thus Rimbecalimo or Rimbecalimon

Nate -- from Nathaniel; Hebrew 'he [God] has given'; Quenya Eru 'God', anantie 'has given', so Eruntion

Paul -- from Latin 'small, little'; Quenya piinea 'small', titta 'little', masculinize them both to get Pityon, or Titton

Scott -- 'of Scottish origin', and since there were no Scottish people in Middle Earth during the Third Age, this one can't be translated

Emma -- probably from German 'entire, whole'; Quenya ilya 'all', thus Ilya or Ilye

There I hope you're happy. And from now on it's one name at a time, so don't think it'll be funny to try to get poor little Eruntalon to do this over and over.

--Eruntalon

[PhirePhreak]

Very interesting Terr. JayLee... I'm gonna do each name individually and try to combine it. Here goes!

Jay -- from Latin 'to rejoice'; Quenya ala 'to thrive', so it'd be Alar

Lee -- from Old English 'wood'; Quenya taure 'wood, forest', thus Tauro

Combine those to get AlaTauro

--Eruntalon

[Kezil]

Very good job on those names. The one's you missed are the ones I didn't expect you to get anyway, and don't worry, I won't be giving you lists like that anymore, just wanted to get translations for some friends' names. Here's another word to try:
Dragon/drake

For Laguna, I believe the root is "lagoon(feminine)"

btw, the antipoints have been sent

[Kezil]

btw everyone, I'm looking for characters/scripts/fonts for my language. If any of you would care to submit some to me of your own design please do at [email protected] . Thank you.

[PhirePhreak]

That's what I figured on Laguna, and I looked through as much of the Quenya language as a could, and was unable to find a word for lagoon.

Drake -- unknown origin 'dragon'; Quenya fenume, amlug, angulooke, looke 'dragon', so any of the following would do as a name: Fenumo(n), Amlugon, Angulooko(n), Looko(n)

--Eruntalon

[RuffRyder]

jan!

[Terr]

Any alternates for a "Darius"-root name?

I found some other ways to cut it, such as Maneharno or something...

Gosh... that sounds worse than my eerie first-attempt "Terararan" attempt :P I think I'll keep the 'Terraran' version for now.

The problem is many names actually actually have many distinct different meanings, depending on the area they are from, culture, language, etc, even if the name itself is pronounced about the same.