: Re: Naming fictional races with original names vs with words from other languages My novels contain several fictional races, but I have been trying to decide how to name them. Therefore, I must

You could use letter substitution ciphers or anagrams to make different versions of short English words with basic meanings. Then modify some of them to sound better. If you do this with a few hundred basic English words you will have a few hundred basic words in an imaginary language.

Then you can assemble them into words and names each consisting of 2 to 4 of the short basic words. And modify some of them to sound better, assuming that the speakers of the language have done the same over the centuries. Your readers will thank you for that.

And you can do the same for several languages in your story if it is a science fiction or fantasy novel with lots of characters from different societies and cultures.

Some of your characters might sometimes react to the liternal meaning of some of the names, especially if they think they are not very appropiate for those ho have them.

And other characters might sometimes react to the associations of a name:

"Your parents named you after Bloktar the Terrible?"
"No, they named me after my great grandfather, Bloktar the Humiliated. They hoped I might bear up to that accursed name as well as my great grandfather did."
"Did you kill your parents?"
"No, but I'm still considering it."

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