Iadrajan Culture: Naming: view article

Menu 1. Given Name 2. Patronymic Name 3. Matronymic Name 4. Surname 5. Examples of Names
One of the first steps to understanding Iadrajan culture is the way people are named. Iadrajan people have four parts to their name. They have a first name which is given by the parents, two names derived from their parents, one is a patronymic of the father's name and the other is an matronymic of the mother's name. The last one is the surname which is patrilineally passed down and can change depending on the status of the person who has that surname.

[edit] [top]Given Name

Given names are very easy to understand. They don't change by status, but will change by the usage in a sentence. Meaning that they will have to change grammatical form to match their usage. Apart from that, given names fall under four categories:

Male Names: Usually ending in a consonant

Female Names: Usually ending in "-a" or "-я"

Neutral Names: Usually ending in "-о" or "-e"(uncommon)

Special Names: Usually ending in "-у" and anything else that doesn't fall into the other categories

These categories determine how the patronymic, matronymic, and surname will act when the name is given.

[edit] [top]Patronymic Name

To get the patronymic of someone, you must first take the father's name and add a special ending that matches both the gender of the given name as well as the marriage status of that person's father. Here are the endings:

Male

Single = -чнав
Married = -жвазь

Female

Single = -чнава
Married = -жва

Neutral

Single = -дмов
Married = -дмовав

Special

Single = -созь
Married = -созвав

[edit] [top]Matronymic Name

To get the matronymic, you'll be doing the same thing as before except the endings here will be slightly different:

Male

Single = -чна
Married = -жвана

Female

Single = -чняна
Married = -жвана

Neutral

Single = -дмова
Married = -дмовав

Special

Single = -созь
Married = -созвав

[edit] [top]Surname

The surname is given through the father line and passes down through the sons of that father. For the father's daughters they will take their husband's surname instead, but the endings to the surname will change to reflect that their surname is not their real last name.

Male

Single = -no change
Married = -no change

Female

Single = -а(This ending is only for the real surname)
Married = -вма(This ending is added on to the husband's surname)

Neutral

Single = -no change(if male) -о(if female)
Married = -no change(if male) -осус(if female)

Special

Single = -no change(if male) -ас(if female)
Married = -no change(if male) -у(if female)

[edit] [top]Examples of Names

Having gone through how names work, here are some example of names being used.

Сѐра Тонжва Марижвана Зоклавма
This tells us many things about this person. First, the person is female, and she's married. Second, her father's name is Ton and their mother's name is Mary, both of which are currently married.

Анна Итакчнава Нанячяна Сигова
This tells us that the person is female, she is unmarried, and that her parents are Itak and Nanya, both of them being unmarried themselves.

Насзу Ясламсозвав Натасозвав Лвадажу
Here is a harder one. This tells us that the person has a special name, however because of the surname ending we know that the person here is female as well. The woman is married and her parents are Yaslam and Nata, who are both married.

An English name example:

Джон Денисчнав Марижвана Смиθ
From what we can see here is that the English man's name is John Smith having the parents of Denis and Mary. Where only Mary is married, with his father Denis being unmarried.

These are just a few examples of how names work in Iadraja. They can be challenging, but through careful studying of how they work you can discover who people are and their families in the process. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article

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