I have been playing about with several different names for my new imagi-nation. So far I have come up with the following:
- Fenetia – This is derived by replacing the 'V' in Venetia (the Italian name for Venice, the city that once controlled the area that the map I have created is based on) with the letter 'F'
- Maldacia – This is derived by reversing the letters ‘D’ and ‘m’ in the name ‘Dalmatia’, and replacing the letter ‘t’ by a ‘c’
- Ragusia – This derived from the old name for Dubrovnik (Ragusa) that gave its name to the dialect spoken along the southern end of the Adriatic coast
- Veglia – This derived from the old name for an island in Kvarner, Northern Croatia, that gave its name to the dialect spoken along the northern end of the Adriatic coast
Names as damned tricky and very much a personal thing. I would offer suggestions, but I think it would be rather like offering to name your children...
ReplyDeleteAll four look/sound good. I think that the last is my least favorite, but I find the first three reasonably equal. All good choices.
ReplyDelete-- Jeff
Maybe Ragusia is too... transparent, too obviously transposed from a name in 'The Real World™'?
ReplyDeleteDo you intend this new country to be 'the bad guys'? "Mal" in tongues with Latin roots = "evil".
Hi Bob,
ReplyDeleteNo question - Slagoyuvia.
You know it makes sense......;-)
All the best,
Ogre
Maldacia sounds ill-omened. Dacia was an old Balkan state that took on the Romans - see Trajan's Column - and mal means bad/ill, as in a malady, so 'Bad/Ill Dacia'
ReplyDeleteMaldacia sounds very plausible to me, and it has a nice ring to it.
ReplyDeleteDear all,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback.
My own 'favourite' is Maldacia, but as you will see from my next blog entry I have played around with this a bit to see if I can 'improve' it at all.
Is Maldacia ill-omened? Well the idea behind its creation was to provide an 'enemy' for Laurania so I suppose that it will need to sound a bit evil.
All the best,
Bob