Subject: What did I do last time?
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Posted on: 2019-11-21 10:47:16 UTC
Looks like I literally translated it as 'nothing': Q. Únyárë, 'No Tale', S. Aringath 'Without Notions', A. Bawâbêth, 'the Wind-Speaker', V. Amanaišalšebeth, 'the Unmarred Air', B. Ashgûl, 'that One Wraith'.
Which is... a bit of a cop-out, isn't it? Perhaps instead, we could do what the Elves did when Arômêz showed up, and transliterate the meaningless name (in that case into Oromë and Araw). So:
Quenya likes to just drop terminal Zs from adopted name, and change the preceding vowel into an E (Manwe gets this treatment), which takes us to 'Iximë'. X is technically allowed as a letter in Q., but it just doesn't look right; I think it would be softened to Issimë. That's a decent Quenya word, meaning something like 'We know ourselves'.
Sindarin lacks both X and Z. The Araw example suggests they would initially cut back to 'Ixi', and then... well, given that 'enni' is a word, I imagine you end up as Issi. Which looks like it might be an archaic plural of the third-person pronoun (which is gender-neutral).
Adunaic loves its Zs, but lacks X, so we're going straight for 'Izimaz'. It doesn't look like Z ends very many words, so they'd probably slap an ending on it; that gives Izimazin/Izimazun (feminine/masculine, because of course the Numenoreans have a gendered language. Actually per Tolkien it's more accurately a sexed language - har, har - which only uses non-neutral genders for things which are or belong to fe/male beings.) No known meaning, though it could be folk-etymologically-derived from izrê+mâ+in/un, 'sweetheart+with+[f/m]'.
Valarin thinks your name is waaaay too short. Q. 'axar' comes from V. 'anaškad', and 'axan' from 'akašân', so we're looking at a word starting 'Iniški' or 'Ikiši'. 'Maz' could be adopted directly as 'mâz', giving us... Iniškimâz? No known meaning, but the ending suggests one of the Valar; you get to hand out with Elcalion, who also got a Vala name.
Black Speech really loves medial consonant clusters. I want to suggest 'Ixmaz', but there's no attested X. Iskmaz, perhaps? Pretty obviously it has no meaning, though if you wanted to be Ishinazg you'd be 'In the Ring'.
hS