Rules: Put down an OC or more and tell what their name means
Thanks so so much @tananaphone for the tag, this was really fun and very fascinating!!
I’d like to talk about Kilderan’s name specifically in this post, mostly because while all of the names in the Hera trilogy came from my imagination, his is one I am particularly proud of. Whether intentionally or by accident, the suffix -eran appears in a few names besides his throughout the trilogy. I’m still a bit undecided on what exactly it translates to in terms of the language used in Hera (not English, it is occasionally referred to as the Primary Language--though there are numerous other languages besides the one used almost everywhere in the galaxy but more on that later--and there are mentions of words written out in characters rather than letters, but there isn’t a definitive guide to it. …yet) but very roughly it means both “to be/to have” and (very roughly, translated as abstractly as is possible) “sun”, in that the sun(s) is the eternal provider of life, light, and energy and therefore is a great representation/symbol of “being” or “to be”. So all in all, a very powerful and almost sacred suffix to end a name with. -Eran is not commonly used, so the fact that it appears more than once in characters’ names is noteworthy. Suffixes are often passed down from father to son/mother to daughter much like a surname would be, thus making the only original part of one’s name the preceding word.
The first part of Kilderan’s name, "Kil(d)", can possibly be translated as “forest/woods”, so to translate his name along the lines of the current etymology of Hera language, it would mean “he who is of the forest” or, if we translated -eran as “sun”, “the sun through the trees”.
tagging: @toribookworm22 @words-after-midnight
