#hshqtask032

[loladebelgique]

HSHQTASK#𝟬𝟯𝟮   &   NAME   .

full name: éloïse wilhelmina vivienne albertine de saxe-cobourg et gotha

nick/preferred name: lola

ÉLOÏSE,     (  french  )   “healthy, wide”

éloïse wasn’t officially named until a week after her birth. since her diagnosis had come so suddenly after her birth, and surgery was underwent right away, her parents had too much on their mind to decide on a name. after she recovered from her first surgery did albert and anne decide to name her “éloïse” in hope that the name could help her grow healthy. 

WILHELMINA,     (  dutch & german  )   “willing to protect”

named after her paternal grandmother who she is extremely close to.

also quite in-character as éloïse is a passionately loyal person, especially when it comes to her family, and is willing to do anything to protect them.

VIVIENNE,     (  french  )   “life, lively”

another name made in hope that she would live a long, healthy life.

her father personally chose this name.

ALBERTINE,     (  german, french  )   “noble, bright”

feminine form of albert, her father’s name.

old german derivative of athala (adal) “noble” and berhta (berht) “bright”

her mother personally chose this name after seeing how fiercely albert had fought to get the best doctors to save his daughter at her birth.

de SAXE-COBOURG et GOTHA,     (  german  )   

the reigning royal house of belgium.

bonus !

her nickname is   LOLA.   she was a showgirl

sporadic choice, i just thought it was cute.

backstory is that when she was in the hospital, she didn’t want to be herself anymore, was growing depressed from being cooped up in the hospital that her nurse gave her a name so she could ‘become’ someone new. since she was in the hospital for quite a time and her medical personnel continued to call her this nickname, it just stuck.

also apparently lola is a common nickname for éloïse, idk.

[jinjianguo]

HSHQ TASK 32 | NAME

建国 | jianguo | chinese | build a country | [IPA /t͡ɕjɛn.kwɔ/ ]

to build or establish a country, their country, is exactly what the last emperor wanted so it’s no wonder that’s what he named his heir. jianguo has always carried his name like a burden. an assignment. while attending oxford, he often went by john. 

金 | jin | chinese | gold | [IPA /t͡ɕin/ ]

the royal family of china

[dvisckc]

HSHQ TASK 32 | NAME

大輔 | daisuke | japanese |  great help | [IPA /dä.i.sɨᵝ.ke̞/ ]

we love irony

源 | minamoto | japanese | origin | [IPA mʲì.ná.mó̞.tó̞ ]

one of the surnames given to members of the royal family not in the line of succession. a powerful clan in japanese nobility 

[daminiqs]

𝐡𝐬𝐡𝐪𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤𝟎𝟑𝟐 -- 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞

ｄａｍｉｎｉ  ｎａｒａｙａｎ  ｑｕｔｂ ｓｈａｈ  

                          𝑡𝘩𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑡𝘩𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒;                            𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘                                           - 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑛

ᵈᵃᵐᶤᶰᶤ ⁻⁻

in sanskrit, damini means LIGHTNING. in bengali culture, people tend to have two names: their “good name”, or bhalo nam, which is used on all legal documents, and their “call name” or daak nam, which is used ONLY by close family and friends. rebati picked her eldest daughter’s bhalo nam intentionally -- her daughter was unexpected as a storm but as welcome as the rains that followed. her mother was also a romantic who wanted a more poetic name that would be used far more often than whatever infantilizing daak naam anyone else came up with. (it should be noted that rebati’s daak naam was BABLI and she hated it.) as a fairly distant line of the narayans, there was far less negotiation on potential names; there was no need to recognize an ancestor or honor a relative. the name is fairly uncommon, a detail that’s more important than one might expect given the number of cousins who gather for any important occasion. hridyanshu gave damini her daak naam; and so, only her father’s side of the family tends to call her MISHTI because supposedly, she loved eating sweet yogurt, or mishtidoi, as a baby. ( pronunciation )

ᶰᵃʳᵃʸᵃᶰ ⁻⁻

middle names are not as common in bengali culture -- especially when daak naams already exist. damini went her mother’s route and chose to change her last name instead of keeping her maiden name. there was no real reason for this aside from her opinion that damini narayan qutb shah was way too long for her to sign on documents. and, unlike her younger sister, marrying into a princely state involved certain optics: there was no way she wouldn’t take her husband’s name. ( pronunciation )

ᵠᵘᵗᵇ ˢʰᵃʰ ⁻⁻

the qutb shahi dynasty were recognized as a composite hindu-muslim religo-social culture. they ruled the golconda sultanate until the late 18th century, prior to the nizams coming into to power as viceroys of the mughal empire in the hyderabad deccan region. their heavy influence in hyderabadi culture makes it difficult to call hyderabad a south indian princely state. farhan and samaira were raised as muslims, but still celebrated major hindu holidays since it’s the dominant religion ( damini has decided to let mihir figure out his religious idenitity since she’s not particularly devout herself. ) though she was apathetic to the surname initially, damini feels even more confident in her decision to take farhan’s last name since his passing. ( pronunciation of QUTB and SHAH )                            

                       𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑙𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑦

[invri]

                                            INARI’S NAMES !

                                               INARI TYYNE TALVITIE

INARI: 🔊 [ ee-nah-ree ] Inari is apparently a relatively traditional name but most importantly, it’s a geographical name. Inari is a lake in Lapland. It’s one of the few ( if not the only ) Finnish geographical names ( source ). Her parents picked the name because it was beautiful & inspired by nature.

TYYNE: 🔊 [ tü:-neh ] Their great grandmother’s name. Another old and traditional name. Means “calm, serene”. Matches her first name as water can be ‘tyyni’. 

[vnncli]

                                  ANNELI ONERVA TALVITIE

ANNELI | a variation of anna / hannah, meaning grace, favor, beautiful. it was a very popular name, it’s still the fourth most common name in finland, i think. but it’s more common among middle-aged people. it’s not a very youthful name. it was picked for anneli because it’s a traditional name and quite easily understood abroad. 

the way it’s hyphenated is an-ne-li. the ‘an’ is close to ann or un-derstandable, it’s not a nasal sound. the ‘ne’ is kind of similar to ne-ver, if you really pronounce the world slowly and clearly, “neh-ver”. the ‘li’ is pronounced roughly the same way as the li in ‘lit’. this is the only website that offered the finnish pronunciation instead of the swedish one.

ONERVA | it’s a finnish noun. though like a very very old noun, no one except grandparents know what it means, i had to google it. but it means the crops that grow after harvest, aftergrass. 

i won’t even try to explain it, here’s a link.

TALVITIE | literally, winter road. tal-vi-ti-e. it was chosen for the finnish royal family after they decided they wanted to get rid of their foreign, german surname. it needed to be something that was the epitome of finnish national identity. and yah, winter is the finnish trademark.

how to pronounce talvi - tie. this woman has a swedish accent so it’s not that great, but eh if you want the whole thing.

i wanted old names, i wanted traditional names. one of my favourite authors is an onerva so... talvitie is a homage to lumijärvi ( snow lake ) and both me and laura liked it a lot. it’s a cute name lol

[kscniya]

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KSENIYA | 

the name derives from the ancient greek root name xenia, which means ‘ welcoming, hospitality, a guest, a stranger, a foreigner ’. 

MAKSIMOVA | 

her patronymic. daughter of maksim.

ROMANOVA | 

the reigning royal house of russia.

i picked the name kseniya bc although the name has positive meanings ( congenial, amicable, friendly ), i found it cool n fitting that it also meant stranger / foreigner. could b taken in a positive manner too but given her birth circumstances i thought it was v Interesting. bit of a double entendre. her middle name comes from her ‘dad’ — her scandalous parentage is unknown to the public. romanova was picked bc its the fam name, what can i do. 

[nctasja]

crown princess natasja kristina magnusdottir, first of her name. 

pronounciation: 

NAH - TAS - JAH : natasja is pronounced similarly to the russian name “natasha” except for the final syllable, which carried a heavy “j” sound. 

name significance: 

NATASJA - her name literally means “birthday”. but that doesn’t matter, it was the name her mother insisted on. she cherishes that fact, that her father disagreed with her name up until the very end and her name is... very unique, too, so she appreciates not sharing it with many. ( i chose natasja from a randomized list of icelandic names when i joined. i think i picked the one closest to a russian name bc i was oriignally interested in a russian royal lmao!! )

KRISTINA - this name means “to anoint”, although natasja has never looked it up. her father chose this name, and he wanted so badly for it to be her first name but eventually lost the argument. ( gonna be real with y’all, this was random as hell ) 

MAGNUSDOTTIR - this name means “daughter of magnus”. iceland uses a patronymic naming system and so each person takes on their father’s name. king magnus is named after his father, with the name KARLSSON and her mother was named after hers with the name EGILSDOTTIR. ( wow it took me 2 seconds to give her the name magnusdottir instead of karlsdottir bc i wanted her dad to have a #basic name )