Aspharu naming conventions
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The Aspharu naming convention is a very archaic tradition, and is quite conservative over time. The naming conventions are attested as far as back from the Invasion period of Maiwai's history. An Aspharu name is composed of four parts, and ordered as such: A demotic or genitive name, a patronym, a second-name that's given at attainment of adulthood, and a given name.
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Components of a name
The demotic name
A demotic name, traditionally, is a name of the borough in which the person resides. However, a borough (or a deme) is specific to an urban area. Oftentimes, the name of a village, region, or geographical feature is used to distinguish this person.
A demotic name, however, is scalable: Locally, you want to use the closest feature, a borough in a city or some other term. When you travel to a different village, you want to use the village from which you're from (or region). When you travel to a different principality or sovereign state, you want to use your principality of residency. When abroad to another nation, you simply use your principality, or if from a state, you use the nation's name.
The forms of these names are dependent: Oftentimes, they're postpositive phrases, sometimes are simply genitives.
Example: In the name, Soywòn ayk Šfaťridt Heňdozsa Espenthòdtos, Soywòn ayk means, "by the Soywòn (river)," which is in the city of Suòres. If he travels to the next village, he'll use the demotic Suòren su.
The patronym
The patronym is the name of the father, mostly found in the genitive. In Hanawenzo, an archaic genitive is used, where the ending (if any) is dropped and a -u is applied. Less commonly, the ending is simply in -idt, found only in Hanawenzo. The patronym is the genetic father's name; even if a marriage is never attained, but the fiancée has received her aryun, the child takes the father's name. If the child is legally adopted, however, the adopting father's patronym might be used.
Very rarely a matronym may be used, where the mother offers her name instead in a genitive (the same as forming a patronym) form. This is mainly done in cases where the father is not known, or where the mother wields greater influence or power than the father. Feminists have attempted a movement to name their children with matronyms, but because of their social standing, the children are looked at as bastards.
Example: In the name, Soywòn ayk Šfaťridt Heňdozsa Espenthòdtos, Šfaťridt is the patronymic form of Šfaťros, his father's given name.
The second-name
A second name is given when a person reaches adulthood. These are simple descriptors, literally adjectives or a compound with a deverbative substantive. This name can either be metaphoric, descriptive, or simply a choice of occupation. This name can change over a person's lifetime.
Example: In the name, Soywòn ayk Šfaťridt Gnazheňdozsa Espenthòdtos, the second to last element, means admirable follower, a common name for men who become soldiers.
The given name
The given name, also known as a ažzevsenkťes, is a name given to the child at birth. This name is quite open-formed and does not comprise a closed class of words. A given name can be a single word (such as a noun or adjective), a derived form of a word, a compound of two words. Archaic or foreign names are sometimes given, without any modification to the word itself.
Example: In the name, Soywòn ayk Šfaťridt Gnazheňdozsa Espenthòdtos, Espenthòdtos (wise action) is the given name, and is static throughout his life.
Titles in names
Titles are placed before the second- and given name in a full address; in direct address, one would use the title and given name, or for more distinction (if necessary), title, second-, and given name.
