I'm enough of a fussbudget that I want to make sure not only that my name is lore-accurate, but also means something I want it to mean. In the case of Mongolian names for Xaela, it's not difficult to find indices of such.
The problem is making sure they were extant around the 15th century.
The page https://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongolian_names_marta.html has a fair number of feminine names from then, but has only a very few meanings. (And I still can't find what "Sokhatai" meant/means...) So I went in the other direction, and chased down meanings first. Two particularly good-looking ones are "Khongordzol" (thistle) and "Naranbaatar" (sun hero). The main problem, of course, is my not knowing when they first came about. So there's a question of if there's an index of Mongolian names that also includes the first recorded instance of each name. Does anyone have any ideas?
(Also appreciated, since I'm bouncing between Xaela, Duskwight, and Sun Seeker to begin with: A concordance of which Elezen given names were derived from which French given names so I can find the etymology that way.)
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The problem is making sure they were extant around the 15th century.
The page https://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongolian_names_marta.html has a fair number of feminine names from then, but has only a very few meanings. (And I still can't find what "Sokhatai" meant/means...) So I went in the other direction, and chased down meanings first. Two particularly good-looking ones are "Khongordzol" (thistle) and "Naranbaatar" (sun hero). The main problem, of course, is my not knowing when they first came about. So there's a question of if there's an index of Mongolian names that also includes the first recorded instance of each name. Does anyone have any ideas?
(Also appreciated, since I'm bouncing between Xaela, Duskwight, and Sun Seeker to begin with: A concordance of which Elezen given names were derived from which French given names so I can find the etymology that way.)
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