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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 3248323" data-attributes="member: 2012">[Storm Peninsula (cont.)]Eversinki SuzeraintyStill to be written.Male NamesAldo, Aleixo, Baldassario, Biaiardo, Bartolomeu, Cibrán, Corradeo, Demarco, Enrikos, Este, Ettore, Flavio, Fortino, Geovanni, Gregorio, Gualtiero, Iago, Ignazio, Innocenzio, Joaquim, Kajetan, Lazaro, Masaccio, Matheus, Maximiliano, Montel, Nario, Niccolo, Olegário, Orsino, Renato, Uso, Valente, Vincenzio, Xabier, Xosé, Zeferino.Female NamesAntía, Battista, Beatricia, Bellissa, Benedetta, Benigna, Bianka, Blanche, Cannelita, Cinzia, Concetta, Crista, Dahna, Daniela, Dores, Emilia, Fatima, Fiammetta, Florenza, Fulvia, Gavriella, Geovana, Giordana, Helena, Iniga, Isabela, Jovita, Lía, Maddelena, Marquesa, Maurizia, Mercede, Nathália, Nicci, Ottavia, Palmira, Uxía, Verona, Volante, Xoana, Zara.Surnames[Reference Page: <a href="http://www.italyworldclub.com/genealogy/surnames/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.italyworldclub.com/genealogy/surnames/index.html</a>]When it is necessary to distinguish individuals with the same Eversinki name, most often the name of the father is added – Giovanni son of Valente, which is shortened to Giovanni di Valente or Giovanni Valenti. In the place of the father's name, especially if the community does not know the father since the individual comes from another place, a toponymic surname can be used, as in Giovanni Velarese or di Rulano, or the job, as Mastro Giovanni.There is a great variety of surnames throughout the Coastal Territories because of different dialects; variations such as Valento/Valenti (singular and plural), and the presence of derivatives consisting of a final suffix, "smaller" as in surnames ending in -ello, -etto, -ino; "bigger" (-one) or "bad" (- accio, - azzo). The following are the main classes of surnames:1. Patronymics – The widest category identified a person by his connection with another person, usually his father, more rarely his mother: the father's name with "son" immediately after it in Common (“English”), or "van", "von" "di" "de" in other Harqual languages, example: Di Geovanni, Liamson; most of these Eversinki (“Italian”) surnames end in -o (masculine name) or in -i derived from a Onan (“Latin”) masculine genitive (example: Biaiardi means "of Biaiardo"). The same origin appears in the preposition "de" or "di" as in De Lazaro, D'Aldo, Di Flavio. In case of a double name it is possible that the second identifies the grandfather, as in Coloeanni meaning son of Niccolo (Colo), grandson of Geovanni (Eanni).2. Toponymics – To identify where a person or family lives or comes from, example Faldarese, Halloway, Helenson, Montagna, and Tallawani.Local area: the surname is associated to a place well known to the community, as for example Fontana, Della Valle, La Porta, and Montagna (from the fountain, the valley, the door, mountain).Geographical origin: this is applied as a consequence of the migrations of people; the place has to be known to the community that applies the toponymic, therefore if the individual comes from near villages, the name of the village is used; if he comes from a more remote city, region or country, a more general name is used, like Tallawani, di Valora, Solitano, Shaulo, Jalmurese, and Orgnarese.3. Occupational names – The job, especially an artisan's job in a small village, is possibly held by only one person or family, so that the profession is added to the Eversinki name, example Fabbri, Carpenter, and Smith. The activity is often also shown with a typical object or animal connected to the profession, as Farina or Forni for a baker, Zappa for a farmer, Tenaglia or Martelli for a carpenter or smith.4. Nicknames – Some features of the personality or appearance, at times ironical, identifies an individual and his descendants, example Piccoli, Short, Selvaggi, Savage. The nickname is often associated to the color or form of the hair (some of the most common surnames have this origin) as in Rossi, Morelli, Ricci, size, like Corti, Grossi, Testa; more creatively, the (often ironical) nickname is made with a verb and an object indicating an action typical of the individual as in Pappalardo (that who eats lard). Other surnames may have come from moral features, as Selvaggio or Allegretti. Names of animals could serve to the same purpose, so there is Mosca (someone small or annoying), Cavallo (someone big, noisy or with large front teeth), Gatto, Grillo, Lepore, and Volpe. Finally a nickname may have come from some feature in the coats-of-arm of the family, like De Argento, Mazzei, D'Arco.5. Surnames of Foundlings – This kind of surnames is chosen by religious institutions; they vary according to places and traditions, so that we have Esposito in Valora, Proietti in Eversink, Trovato in Tallawan, Casadio in Dragonhold.DM’s Note: *While the names Eversinki are based on Ervenik, it isn’t the dominant language of all the lands of the Coastal Territories. It is, however, a strong regional language and influences cities as far away as Anthmoor and Dragonhold. Eversinki is the dominant language of the Eversink Suzerainty and the City of Storms, Tallawan. It was also a dominant language in what is now Caer Valora (ruined). As the years pass, the language has migrated down the shoreline of the Storm Peninsula, and most scholars believe it will become the dominant language of the Storm Domain in less than 100 years. The language doesn’t exist, in the east, much past the Kingdom of Izmer and it is considered a foreign language there.</blockquote>

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