{"id":133,"date":"2012-04-12T20:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-04-14T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T17:34:35","slug":"the-shshi-naming-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"The Shshi Naming System"},"content":{"rendered":"

All nymphs look nearly identical when they hatch; their ultimate Caste cannot be determined.\u00a0 Therefore, the Namer Alates give them one-syllable names, like Kri (leg), Shra (flowers), or Tei (eye).\u00a0 At third molt, when their adult Caste is revealed, a suitable imago (adult) name is conferred, incorporating their nymph name.<\/p>\n

A Worker gets a two-syllable name, like Ti’shra (Sweet Flowers) or No’kri (Big Leg).<\/p>\n

A Warrior gets a three-syllable name, like Hi’ta’fu (Defends Her [i.e. the Queen\u2019s] Honor; in this case the nymph name was Fum [Honor], which becomes shortened in the adult name).\u00a0 A’gwa’ji (Belly Slash) is the name of a Warrior whose nymph-name was Gwaf (Belly); the presence of the “a” is an example of the place-holding syllable mentioned in the page on “Shshi Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The Alates (winged Caste) get four-syllable names, like Kwi\u2019ga\u2019ga\u2019tei (One of Many Speakers Who Sees; her nymph name was Tei (Eye or Seeing); her imago name is a traditional Seer’s name).\u00a0 Other examples are Mo’gri’ta’tu (Shining Sun Her Wing; “her” is used even though the Chamberlain is male, because this is also a traditional name.\u00a0 His nymph name was Gri [Sun]).\u00a0 And one more example: Di’fa’kro’mi the Remembrancer (Happy He Comes [to the] Place)<\/p>\n

The only people with five-syllable names are the breeding pair, the Mother and the King.\u00a0 When a new Mother is installed, the fortress’s Seer has the privilege of naming her.\u00a0 Thus, the Mother of the fortress of Lo’ro’ra bore the Alate name of Mei\u2019a\u2019kha\u2019bu (Rain on Blue River) and the Alate who was Seer at the time the fortress was founded named her Ahk’a’ma’na’ta (Blue Mother).\u00a0 The King of Lo’ro’ra is Sei’o’na’sha’ma, which means basically Tree King.<\/p>\n

All female progenitors’ names end in ma’na’ta|<\/em> which is the word for Mother or, in our usage, Queen.\u00a0 It means literally “he-holy-she,” with a derivation that is lost in time but probably refers to the fact that the Highest-Mother-Who-Has-No-Name ate her King and thus he became part of herself.\u00a0 na’sha’ma|<\/em> means “King.”\u00a0 Again, the origin is somewhat obscure; the literal meaning of the three syllables is “holy-you are-male” although the possibility exists that the waveform designated “sha” could have been corrupted from some lost root.<\/p>\n

Fortress names are generally pretty straightforward.\u00a0 Thus, Ki’shto’ba’s home fortress is named To’wak, which means Destructive Mandible.\u00a0 Kwai’kwai’za means Many Hills (kwai|<\/em>: mountain; za|<\/em>: little – plus reduplication to indicate Many).\u00a0 And our fortress of Lo’ro’ra (lo’ro’ra’mi|<\/em>) has a rather more obscure meaning; the four syllables mean literally Strong-Holding-Flower-Place, which usually is construed as Strong Land of Flowers, or Strong Flower Fortress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All nymphs look nearly identical when they hatch; their ultimate Caste cannot be determined.\u00a0 Therefore, the Namer Alates give them one-syllable names, like Kri (leg), Shra (flowers), or Tei (eye).\u00a0 At third molt, when their adult Caste is revealed, a suitable imago (adult) name is conferred, incorporating their nymph name. A Worker gets a two-syllable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shshi-culture","category-shshi-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}