Condensed Naming Convention Threads (Outdated)

[Thaumantica]

First Naming Convention
"The Great Sea"

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In an effort to improve our map, the game, and the relationship between players and the aforementioned: we have decided to begin holding naming conventions for bodies of water, land mass, and perhaps even some natural wonders to behold.

The first convention is held for "The Great Sea", an admirable choice for a title, though it fails to tell a story. Let's get a few nominations, basis/history for these nominations, and a followup wiki article for the fate of this body of water.

To summarize what I just said: we're renaming the Great Sea. Nominate a name if you'd like. We'll write a wiki article describing the etymology or history behind the name. We might do this again with other bodies of water or land. ​

 

[Breotonia]

I personally like the Great Sea as a name (though I recognize that it is far from informative and, in many ways, having an ocean with such a generic name seems unrealistic) and I do not have a replacement name per se. However, might I suggest that the name be somehow linked to the Tiburan Empire and perhaps be derived from Latin?

Also, I've begun to realize, I use a lot of parenthetical statements when I write.

 

[Taley]

I personally like the Great Sea as a name (though I recognize that it is far from informative and, in many ways, having an ocean with such a generic name seems unrealistic) and I do not have a replacement name per se. However, might I suggest that the name be somehow linked to the Tiburan Empire and perhaps be derived from Latin?

Also, I've begun to realize, I use a lot of parenthetical statements when I write.

Building off of Breo's notion on the tiburan front.

I like the fact that some of the names like Implarian, and Long Seas and the Great sea, were brought over from the classic map. I think the great sea should be replaced with Long Sea (Could be the name of an explorer), and give the Long Sea something related to the Tiburian Empire since that empire covered the entire sea.

 

[Thaumantica]

If this is your bid, would you care to write out that history/etymology formally?

 

[Taley]

If this is your bid, would you care to write out that history/etymology formally?

not really since im not in either part and it would be up to those nations involved to come up with a common history of their region.

If you start talking about the Sindh then maybe id care more.

 

[Thaumantica]

Then hold your tongue for the naming convention of the Sindh.

 

[Jydsken-Østveg]

If we go along the lines of Ancient Tibur, I might suggest Latin names for "Great" which google tells me are these: MAGNUS, INGENS, AMPLUS, GRANDIS, PERNIMIUS, PRAEGRANDIS, MULTUS, CONCLAMATUS, MOLTUS, POTENS, PRAECELLENS, MAGNIFICUS, TALIS, IMPENSUS, PRAEVALIDUS, INPENSUS... Since I know nothing about latin and I'm sure these synonyms have specific usages, I believe an actual scholar of latin should contribute. But it's an idea if we follow the term "Great" and perhaps apply it to the feeling that the Sea was the biggest in the world according to the narrow view of the world held by Tibur.

 

[Danmark]

A Latin name could be Mare Occidentalis...

 

[Potenza]

Talis Sea has a nice ring to it.

 

[Taley]

Then hold your tongue for the naming convention of the Sindh.

Talis Sea has a nice ring to it.

Talis doesn't translate into the context of the proper use of "great" that we are trying to go with in naming the sea. of those coro listed Ingens and Amplus would be the most proper adjectives to fit with "great" in our use, especially if it is called that because it was simple big.

Im not a great latin scholar only a few years in high school and online translators. Id prefer Amplus because we dont have many bodies of water beginning with A that i can recall.

 

[Breotonia]

I also only took Latin in high school but based on how the Romans named other bodies of water I think that simply trying to say "Great Sea" in Latin isn't the best we can do. The Atlantic (and, incidentally Atlantis) got it's name from Atlas the Mediterranean translates roughly to sea enclosed within land.

 

[Fryslân]

I like Mare Magna Europae / Magna Europae mare

 

[Breotonia]

That's another thing, I can't think of an example of a Roman named sea or ocean containing within its name a word for sea or ocean.

 

[Danmark]

Just thinking, if we have an official name, is there scope for developing regional names for the same places and have them documented? E.g. IRL, the Baltic Sea translates as the 'Eastern Lake' in Scandinavian languages.

 

[Breotonia]

We do that with continents/nations already via the wiki and through individual RP.

 

[Great Engellex]

Just thinking, if we have an official name, is there scope for developing regional names for the same places and have them documented? E.g. IRL, the Baltic Sea translates as the 'Eastern Lake' in Scandinavian languages.

That already takes place, but they cannot be placed on the map of course, if that is what you meant.

I believe Wiese set up something about alternatives on the wiki.

 

[Natal]

I believe we should name the Long sea in Latin, knowing that the Tiburans ruled north Himyar and Gallo-Germania, and name the Great Sea after an explorer or something Celtic (thinking of Warr) or french (thinking of Belmont).

 

[Breotonia]

Do we have a map somewhere that shows the expanse of the Tiburan Empire?

 

[Taley]

Do we have a map somewhere that shows the expanse of the Tiburan Empire?

yes, but it is somewhere.

 

[Josepania]

*Emerges from lurking*

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This is the latest map I could find on short notice of the Tiburan Empire. It was created by Lusitania and can be found on page six of the thread "WikiProject: Ancient Tibur".

The green territory to the southeast was a proposed (but never discussed) Sassanid Empire-expy.