Something I'm kind of struggling to wrap my head around. Is there a way for multiple word given names to work in English? Have you ever seen it done well? Just from a grammatical standpoint, it seems very difficult to construct sentences around a character with a name that is made up of multiple normal english words.

I don't even have any examples of such names yet because while I have the concept of a world in which names are supposed to be very directly and unambiguously meaningful, I haven't come up with one yet that doesn't completely fail a basic "Hello, my name is" test

Basically, how do I break English name rules without it sounding 110% fucked up?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    There are baby name pages that will break down the etymology and origins of thousands of names. Fun fact: Tiffany sounds modern but it's actually medieval French.

    Iana linguist, but apparently within a given language contractions and shortening and dropping parts of words happen in consistent ways so you can look at a modern word and the old word it was constructed from and trace how the changes happened.

    Another fun fact: pretty much any moder name ending in "El" is a biblical hebrew name - Michael, Daniel, etc. I think Michael means "who is like god?" But i'd have to look it up. "El" was one of the eupmemistic names used to describe god back in the day.