Maksym's guide to Laqi language names
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:30 am
To be placed in the wiki when I can either remember my password or finally get through Ian McEwan's Atonement, which I am despising like no other novel I have thus far had the 'pleasure' to read.
*ahem*
Laqi language names are a general amalgam of RL Central Asian and Siberian traditional patrilineal surnames, and the system used by the Ottoman Turks of name structuring, before Ataturk introduced a surnames law to Turkey sometime around 1930. Basically, it involves a string of common Laqi words or deeds strung together in one's surname, with the addition of the Slavic '-ov' or '-yev' suffix.
Anyone present in the last Shirereithan Civil War will maybe remember some of the ridiculously long Laqi names used for military commanders. For example, here is one common Laqi surname:
Muradmollakazakgaaziyogjiliktzunibeybarbukemirov
Murad- meaning 'son of Murad'
Molla- meaning 'teacher'
Kazak- 'cossack'
Gaazi- 'warlord' or 'fierce soldier'
Yogjili- from the town of Yogji (wherever that may be)
Ktzunibey- a rich landlord from K'Tzuni
Barbu- Bearded (from Laqi- 'Barb')
Emir- Local chieftain, from Arabic influence
plus Slavic -ov suffix.
Hope that clears a few things up!
*ahem*
Laqi language names are a general amalgam of RL Central Asian and Siberian traditional patrilineal surnames, and the system used by the Ottoman Turks of name structuring, before Ataturk introduced a surnames law to Turkey sometime around 1930. Basically, it involves a string of common Laqi words or deeds strung together in one's surname, with the addition of the Slavic '-ov' or '-yev' suffix.
Anyone present in the last Shirereithan Civil War will maybe remember some of the ridiculously long Laqi names used for military commanders. For example, here is one common Laqi surname:
Muradmollakazakgaaziyogjiliktzunibeybarbukemirov
Murad- meaning 'son of Murad'
Molla- meaning 'teacher'
Kazak- 'cossack'
Gaazi- 'warlord' or 'fierce soldier'
Yogjili- from the town of Yogji (wherever that may be)
Ktzunibey- a rich landlord from K'Tzuni
Barbu- Bearded (from Laqi- 'Barb')
Emir- Local chieftain, from Arabic influence
plus Slavic -ov suffix.
Hope that clears a few things up!