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<blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 488827" data-attributes="member: 5990">Jeeze, Grimloch would be a tough one to get saddled with.My wolf nomad barbarian has a Mongolian name.&nbsp; I'd avoid Bortai and Ho'elun unless the character's a she. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />&nbsp; (Much as I appreciate Onomastikon, much of what it says about Mongolian names is rather wrong.)The Mongolian patronymic pattern is likeTulin Jurchi&nbsp; (Jurchi son of Tuli).Unegin BTW means &quot;fox&quot; if you were planning to use it.Batu is something like &quot;strong&quot; or &quot;firm&quot;Moenke = eternalMedieval Mongols prefered single element names, but compounds become common later in history, especially with &quot;bat-&quot;.As in most pre-literate or early literate cultures, Medieval names were almost always part of the general vocabulary of the language.&nbsp; Words that only function as names and have no other clear meaning only tend to occur when a culture has&nbsp; developed a body of unchanging tradition reinforced by the written word.Thus the names to the Mongols were simply things like &quot;Strong,&quot; &quot;Brave,&quot; or even abstract terms sometimes.The author of <a href="http://www.9v.com/crystal/kerij-e/docs/names.htm" target="_blank">this site</a>&nbsp; knows what she's talking about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tarchon, post: 488827, member: 5990"] Jeeze, Grimloch would be a tough one to get saddled with. My wolf nomad barbarian has a Mongolian name. I'd avoid Bortai and Ho'elun unless the character's a she. :-) (Much as I appreciate Onomastikon, much of what it says about Mongolian names is rather wrong.) The Mongolian patronymic pattern is like Tulin Jurchi (Jurchi son of Tuli). Unegin BTW means "fox" if you were planning to use it. Batu is something like "strong" or "firm" Moenke = eternal Medieval Mongols prefered single element names, but compounds become common later in history, especially with "bat-". As in most pre-literate or early literate cultures, Medieval names were almost always part of the general vocabulary of the language. Words that only function as names and have no other clear meaning only tend to occur when a culture has developed a body of unchanging tradition reinforced by the written word. Thus the names to the Mongols were simply things like "Strong," "Brave," or even abstract terms sometimes. The author of [URL=http://www.9v.com/crystal/kerij-e/docs/names.htm]this site[/URL] knows what she's talking about. [/QUOTE]

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