A Talossan Name Please!

[Joseph Walkland]

Azul!
I Would Like A Talossan Name, So I Can Decide To Keep The Talossan Name Or My Given Name.
Ups And Olaf Are Easy, But JWoolley Said My Walkland Needed Discussion.

The Origins Of Walkland:
First, We Must Split this Into 2.

Walk.
Comes From Walker, Generally Meaning: "Robust", Like A Walking-Stick. (Váglh)

Land.
Comes From Friedlander, Russian For Hill. (Muotâ)

So, I Think My Talossan Name Must Be: "Ups Olaf Váglh-Muotâ"

[Ups Antônio Martüc]

What's "Olaf" for? Your middle name?

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

How interesting - where did you find the origin of Walkland? The sources I found say the origin is uncertain. I do know that almost all Walklands come from Yorkshire, which is kind of cool.

[Joseph Walkland]

gunshyslycat1 said:

What's "Olaf" for? Your middle name?

Yes, Oliver

[Joseph Walkland]

siervicul said:

How interesting - where did you find the origin of Walkland? The sources I found say the origin is uncertain. I do know that almost all Walklands come from Yorkshire, which is kind of cool.

True, The Name Was Originally Started In The 1500s In Nottinghamshire, But There Were No Walklands On Record For A While, Because They All Moved To the USA, However, My Mother And Father (Walker And Friedlander), Couldn't Decide Which Name To Keep, So they Created: Walkland.

[Joseph Walkland]

So, Are We Agreed That:"Ups Olaf Váglh-Muotâ" Would Be My Talossan Name?

[King John]

That's really interesting, putting together parts of two surnames to make a third. So the etymology of the surname "Walkland" isn't germane; in your case, it was syllables from your parents' names.

OK, we could go two directions here. We could look for the underlying etymologies of the Walk in "Walker" and the Land in "Friedlander"; which are, uh, "Walk" and "Land". (Your Walkingstickhill is not a very good approximation to this.) Maybe "Marschtzarâ"?

Or, we could say that the elements of your parents' names that were recombined lost, as it were, their underlying meanings, and are simply (English-sounding) sounds. In which case, we can just transliterate and get something in Talossan like Valc'hlantâ.

Or this might be a good time to appeal to Sir Tomás Garicéir for help; he has a very good feeling for Talossan etymology.

— John Woolley, UrN

[Joseph Walkland]

Well, Thanks, But I Think I Will Keep My Non-Talossan Name Please

[Lord Q]

gunshyslycat1 said:

Why? All that research just to keep your own name in the end? *rolls eyes*

Now is that really necessary? Maybe he didn't find it to his liking. It's his decision, and not one you need to chime in on.

[angiepangie]

What could be my Talossan name??