Subject: And now I attempt Sindarin.
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Posted on: 2022-04-21 17:15:38 UTC

Disclaimer: I am not good at this. I make no pretense of being good at this. ^_^;

Let's do it anyway!

  1. Ursula becomes Grawegil: graw "bear" + -eg (diminutive suffix) + -il (feminine suffix). That was fairly straightforward!
  2. For Maleficent, apparently there are some convenient words already attested: ogron n. "a wicked or evil person" or rhugarol adj. "wicked, doing evil." I like Rhugarol.
  3. For James Hook: To my surprise, I couldn't find words meaning anything like "usurp," "supplant," etc. Nor is there a word for the heel of the foot. There is a word meaning "after-born," though, and that word is Abonnen. Works for me!
  4. For Jafar: sîr means "stream," but it's not very name-like all by itself. Perhaps he's the opposite of Sirion, the Great Stream, and is instead Sirieg, the Little Stream.
  5. For John, I looked at the elements fael adj. "fair-minded, just, generous, 'having a good fëa'", hîr n. "master, lord", and te pron. "he is". We could string them all together to get Hírthefael "the lord he is gracious", but to get something that might work as a widely used name, it might just be Tefael "he is gracious".
  6. The Queen of Hearts... is boring. I'm skipping her. {X D
  7. For Tremaine, Stone Town, we have a wealth of options for once: ost "town with wall round" and gobel "walled house or village, town"; gond "(great) stone" and sarn "(small) stone". Sarnost sounds pretty good to me, but Sarnobel, Gon(d)obel, or Gon(d)ost could theoretically work, too.
  8. For Mother Gothel, first I must note the similar-sounding word Gódhel that means "'Deep Elf' or 'Gnome', one of the Wise Folk". Gothel continues to be the most amusing villain name. {X D Actually translating it, I get Eithelwi "person of healing". Actual persons of healing who live in my brain would like it known they are deeply offended. ^_~

Aaaand that's it, I'm done. I've tried my best, and I shall try no more today!

~Neshomeh

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