Kanaši Names
What friends call you, and what the taxman calls you. Newly rediscovered; highly fragmentary.
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In the Kanašu, people have names. This is quite often regarded as a bad idea, especially when the taxmen come around, but everyone keeps doing it anyways, usually because if they didn't their grandmothers would be sad.
Names are stressed as other words are, but they are generally exempt from the vowel stress shift.

Praenomina


Names in Tzuman, unlike nouns generally, can distinguish between male and female by the final vowel; consonant-ended names are ambiguous as to their gender. I is also ambiguous, being used for both male and female names. Ĕ does not occur finally in praenomen.
FemaleMale
o ey ē aoe ea a u


Cēkiney(o) – f praenomen
Cēki – (shortened/nick)name
Evey – f female praenomen (shortening of Eveyo, which still exists though in modern times is much rarer than the truncated form)


Ešenuy – male name
Ešen – shortened
Eviš – male name
Cēkiniste – male praenomen
Cēki – (shortened/nick)name
Minaš – male Teśara name, borrowed into Iteče & Išeni
Sajoleh – male name
Veyjuse – male name
Zailele – male name
Zail – (shortened/nick)name

adjectives commonly used for praenomina


čēkin wonderful
Cēkiniste – male praenomen
Cēkineyo – female praenomen

Surnames


Descriptive


Adj-Noun

Place Names


Tzešaghrítze Tešaghrene
Išiyítze Iši/Išeni

surname suffixes


-utze -ene, -ese
-gal surname suffix


Tzuman naming system



SURNAME[2nd surname]Given NameEarned Name


Surname - family name, usually passed down paternally, with a significant minority passing maternally, especially in Icetrou (switched to wholly maternal lineage in White Sands Bay and natives north therefrom, reverting to paternal in the culturally-influenced Čal lands). Often from occupations.

2nd Surname - Found in only about 15-20% of Kanaši names, the second Surname has several sources:
a maternal surname when that line is of special note or significance (maternally-passed down family names generally do not take a patronym as a second surname)
two exceptionally close families may choose to link the other's name with theirs
in some parts of the Kanašu it is a form of partial adoption for one or more members of another family (or orphans, who generally keep their surnames even when taken in by another family in Kanaši society)
it is found in the colonies along the Emanar Venoršanid by descendants of settlers, typically being the name of the family or city which sponsored their ancestors' travel, with those of Išeneli descent frequently postposing Išeni in solidarity with their mother country

Given Name - praenomen.

Earned Name - This doesn't occur often, but when it does it is typically for an exceptional act - either of an inspiring nature (the Holy, the Kind, the Agile) or a disheartening one (the Drunk, the Lazy, the Shunned). Unsurprisingly the designees of the latter category don't often use it themselves.



Biographies


The few, the proud, the actually thought-up.
Ĕrscag Yaniš – female tory MP (Noble), eventual PM; her mother was one of her father's slaves, and his designation of Yaniš as his heir raised an unholy ruckus in the Diet (not to mention among her older half-brothers, who groused about it until they got an estate shoved in each of their mouths). Unusually light-skinned for the Kanaši; this she inherited from her mother. Her father died when she was 26, making her head of the family, as well as inheriting his position in the Diet, an unusually young age. At 34, she became PM (the first Sáňa Kosútsi Hresóhas, King's Leaderess Minister, as opposed to the 'normal' Taoǧúh Kosútsi Hresóhas).
Renši Evey – Officially, Yaniš Ĕrsčag's sister-in-law, advisor, and close confidant. In reality, they are the love of each other's life. Close in their teenage years, they came to realize their love for each other after Yanis' father died and she was thrust into his positions, both as head of the family and in political circles. A wedding with Evey's brother Zail provided a convenient veneer of acceptability, preserving Yaniš' standing in the cutthroat politics of Icetrou. Soft and patient where Yaniš is stern and swift, Evey is just as wily a strategist as her partner, but able to operate behind the scenes, cutting deals that her lover couldn't be seen making herself.