> > 'lok', n. "end, conclusion, close; bolt; lock; locker; cover,

lid; a

> > kind of fern or weed" appears in the phrase 'líða undir lok' "to
> > die" (lit. to pass under the LOK) -- but is this LOK in

the "cover"

> > sense rather than "end"?

Or "weeds/fern", like pushing up the daisies?



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Elizabeth Shipley
<e_shipley@...> wrote:

> I'm so excited about this language.

Fun, isn't it!

> "Endi" looks promising for my purposes. A friend who is a writer

asked me to

> help him create an authentic Norse character-name that would

mean "Writer of

> Ends". He wants it to have the same meanings in ON that it does in

English --

> that is, someone who causes death, and also someone (or some tool,

like a pen)

> that literally writes the ending to a story. I told him I wasn't

sure that ON

> could cover both meanings in one word. But maybe "endi" has both

meanings? What

> do you think?

Does the character want a male or a female name? Given names tended
to follow certain conventions according to gender, usually (but not
always) male names were masculine, in grammatical terms, and female
names feminine. Actually, given names were quite traditional, or
were at least composed of traditional elements put together in a
conventional way, so that might limit the "authenticity" of a made-
up name with this meaning. But then a person would often have a
nickname, which admits a bit more variety. How about the
suspiciously elvish-sounding Lokrist- (with nominative inflections:
masculine Lokristr, Lokristir, Lokristi; feminine Lokrist,
Lokrista). The second element here is inspired by the verb RÍSTA,
ríst; reist, ristum, ristinn "cut, carve, inscribe [runes]". Google
tells me Locrist is an old Breton name, and Lokristi is somewhere in
Flanders... Or you could substitute ENDA- for LOK-, Endarist. Hmm,
that sounds rather elvish too... Alternatives for the second
element: -riti, -rita, rítr, etc. (from the verb RÍTA, rít; ritum,
ritinn "scratch, cut; write"). The verb SKRIFA (að) is "draw,
paint; write", SKRIFARI "painter; writer, transcriber". Too obvious
perhaps? FÁ (fá; fáða, fáðr) is "to draw, paint", for example
runes. But 'fái' means "an image, a figure". Some male endings: -
r, -ir, -nir, -i, -li, -ill, -ull, ungr, -ingr, -arr. Female: -a, -
ul, nothing.

e.g. MALE: Lokristr, Lokritnir, Endaristr, Endaritnir, Endaskrifnir,
Endaristungr, Endaritnir, etc.

e.g. FEMALE: Lokrist, Lokrista, Lokreist, Endarist, Endarista,
Endaristul, etc. (A female name ending in -rist would have the
advantage of also sounding as if it comes from the Valkyrie name
Hrist. And Ristill is an honorific term for "lady".)

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