Cool ancient names

[mrtn]

Jack merchant, as I understood it it's the other way round: if you are a slave the only thing you can give your child is a cool name. I think there were a bunch of US slaves called Socrates too.

What do you all think of the Swedish king "Erik the lisping and halting"?

 

[Loaf Warden]

Originally posted by Mongoloid Cow
Loaf Warden, I want the world to start using the 'Æ' again.

I want English-speakers to start using the letters 'þ' and 'ð' again. Many of the names I listed are supposed to include them, but I left them out because only an Icelander or an Anglo-Saxon enthusiast would have been able to read them.

How do you say half the names you wrote (out of interest) such as Edwy, Heahbert and Hlothere (kinda like Hello there?)?

Well, since you asked . . .

This is not the time or place for a complete lesson in Old English pronunciation, but to summarize:
-Æ was like the 'a' in 'bat' (not the same sound as the Latin 'Æ').
-Y was like the modern German 'ü'.
-C sometimes sounded like 'k' and sometimes like the 'ch' of 'children'.
-H, after a vowel, was like the German 'ch'.
-The vowel combination ea is pronounced as 'æ' plus a schwa in a single, gliding sound. That's the simplest way I could describe it. Imagine yourself starting to say 'hat', then switching in mid-vowel to an 'uh' sound, then finishing off with a 'ch' like in the name 'Bach'. That's how to say the 'Heah' part of Heahbert. With '-bert', thank Woden, what you see is what you get.
-There were no silent letters. Any letter you see in an Anglo-Saxon name is pronounced. So 'Hlothere' is three syllables: 'hlo + the + re'. An 'H' before a consonant was rather common then, and I am almost certain this name is supposed to go smoothly from the 'H' to the 'L' without any vowel noises in between.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Originally posted by Loaf Warden

I want English-speakers to start using the letters 'þ' and 'ð' again.

How did you make those characters? I have been trying for ages and have yet to come up with it.

(Well, I've found ð in IPA fonts, but nobody has those and they use a different symbol for þ)

 

[Loaf Warden]

I just hold down the Alt button and type 0254, and þ comes out. Ditto for ð, only the number is 0240.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

The Aztecs did have some interesting names:

Acolnahuacatl, Acolmiztli, Centzonuitznaua, Chalchiuhtlatonal, Huitzilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, to name but a few...

A special prize for the first person to pronounce this: Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Aphex_Twin

A special prize for the first person to pronounce this: Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli

That name is so over used (like Smith or Johnson).

 

[Unregister]

Cool ancient names- Alexander the Great (props to Macedonia!)

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

He he ... some dacians/tracian names also sund cool ( for me at least ) : Zamolxis, Gebelesis, Burebistas ...

Regards

 

[Tathlum]

Crom Curach (nasty celtic god)
Wulf the quarrelsome (Viking who fought at Clontarf)
Ivar the Boneless (Viking King)
Cu Cullain (celtic hero)

Carthaginian names:
Maharbal
Hasdrubal

City name:
Sarmesegethusa (Dacian capitol)

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Japanrocks12
This one: Confucius

That is:
Kung Fu Tsu

Peri, I Noted a conspicuous asbsence from you Roamn List.

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by Tathlum

City name:
Sarmesegethusa (Dacian capitol)

Yea, I like some old cities names from Civ III too like:
Babylon and Ninevah, Persopolis also.

There is one name of prechristian Serbian God of thunder : PERUN!



O, and another one "Chief God" : SVEVID (which means: All (sve) See (vid) ).

 

[samildanach]

I like names from Celtic Mythology as well. My user name Samildanach " the talented one " is one of the names used to refer to the Celtic Zeus - the chief God of the Celtic pantheon. He is known by many other names, interestingly one of the most commonly used is Lam Fada, if I remember correctly, which means "the shining one " or "the light bringer". Notice that the Christian devil is also known as the "light bringer" i.e. Lucifer.
Samildanach is also thought to have been the model for the Norse God Odin.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

Originally posted by Loaf Warden
Well, since you asked . . .

This is not the time or place for a complete lesson in Old English pronunciation, but to summarize:
-Æ was like the 'a' in 'bat' (not the same sound as the Latin 'Æ').
-Y was like the modern German 'ü'.
-C sometimes sounded like 'k' and sometimes like the 'ch' of 'children'.
-H, after a vowel, was like the German 'ch'.
-The vowel combination ea is pronounced as 'æ' plus a schwa in a single, gliding sound. That's the simplest way I could describe it. Imagine yourself starting to say 'hat', then switching in mid-vowel to an 'uh' sound, then finishing off with a 'ch' like in the name 'Bach'. That's how to say the 'Heah' part of Heahbert. With '-bert', thank Woden, what you see is what you get.
-There were no silent letters. Any letter you see in an Anglo-Saxon name is pronounced. So 'Hlothere' is three syllables: 'hlo + the + re'. An 'H' before a consonant was rather common then, and I am almost certain this name is supposed to go smoothly from the 'H' to the 'L' without any vowel noises in between.

Thanks

 

[jack merchant]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
That is:
Kung Fu Tsu

Peri, I Noted a conspicuous asbsence from you Roamn List.

Caius Mucius Scaevola ?

Personally, I think something like Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius is much more impressive .

 

[Loaf Warden]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
That is:
Kung Fu Tsu

Or Kong Fuzi, in the Pinyin spelling.

I love Roman names. Just glance through a list of Roman consuls, and you'll come across some real doozies, like:
Publius Valerius Poplicola
Titus Herminius Aquilinus
Postumius Cominus Auruncus
Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus
Opiter Verginius Esquilinus
Appius Claudius Crassus Inregillensis Sabinus
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus
Marcus Folius Flaccinator
Titus Quinctius Poenus Cincinnatus
Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus Agrippa Menenius Lanatus

I love Latin. I need a Latin name. Does anyone know how to say 'warden of loaves' in Latin?

 

[LouLong]

Originally posted by jack merchant

No doubt in times to come people will be fascinated by names such as 'Lori', 'Kevin' and 'Shanté'. .

Funny but we have a different explanation for our former slaves (in the French West Indies). It seems like when freed the black slaves who of course did not have a family name chose either their former landlord name or opened books and dictionaries where those who could read chose names at random but the famous ones were in favor for their reputation. Hence the Napoleons, Cesars, .... or other quite pretention names some families still have.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Originally posted by Tathlum
City name:
Sarmesegethusa (Dacian capitol)

You mean Sarmisegetusa

 

[Stefan Haertel]

How about Arses (Achaemenid Persian king 338-336 BC)?

 

[SanPellegrino]

Originally posted by samildanach
interestingly one of the most commonly used is Lam Fada, if I remember correctly, which means "the shining one " or "the light bringer". Notice that the Christian devil is also known as the "light bringer" i.e. Lucifer.
Samildanach is also thought to have been the model for the Norse God Odin.

also Prometheus in greek mythology was the lightbringer and was therefore punished by Zeus, same thing in other cultures. there are various theories about this, one common is christian church wanted to bring the old deities in miscredit.

on topic, most I like Harald (?) Bluetooth and no he wasn't a dentist but a danish king.

 

[Cilpot]

Originally posted by Mongoloid Cow
Loaf Warden, I want the world to start using the 'Æ' again.

Some countries still have the letter in the alphabet