Since we have replies back, I’d like to take advantage by asking you guys about pronunciations. Take the following names of people and places from a high fantasy foray @czarinamischa and I are working on:
- Gelespri
- Geles
- Rhanin
- Karel
- Tiera
So how would you pronounce these, and optionally, where are you from/what’s your first language?
Just reblogging this since last time I posted at an odd time, and I was hoping to catch a few more eyes!
Since we have replies back, I’d like to take advantage by asking you guys about pronunciations. Take the following names of people and places from a high fantasy foray @czarinamischa and I are working on:
So how would you pronounce these, and optionally, where are you from/what’s your first language?
I was thinking the other day and wondered if there was a link between the name Epona, the horse from Legend of Zelda games, and the etymology behind stuff like ‘eponym’, etc because I thought it’d be funny if it turned out that her name was basically Name or something dumb like that.
But no, it’s probably from Epona, the goddess who was a protector of horses, mules, and donkeys, and whose name is Gaulish and means ‘Great Mare’. Oh and she was a fertility goddess sooooo……do with that as you will.
But basically Link named his beloved mare Great Mare. That’s…just…wow very inventive. This is why he never gets the Triforce of Wisdom.
Waiting for Winter 