Continent Names

[Rommy]

Here are our continents.

The purple one is based geographically and climate wise on North America/Europe

The southern light green one is based on Sub-Sahara Africa/South America

and the Teal/Turquoise one is based on the Middle East towards the north, central Asia in the middle, and East Asia towards well the East/South.

They are need names lol. (Yes I just copy pasted this from the other thread, FIGHT ME)

I mentioned already:

""""The South America analogy I was thinking of calling "Viracho" based on the name for the Inca God for well...Everything "Virachocha" *shrugs*

I like the idea of Sonko or Sunko for the Asia analogue unless someone has a pretty good idea stemming from more Mid. Eastern cultures which I would like an idea from.

The Europe/North America I'm interesting in some ideas for. I think that would should depend what ends up being the root language for the name of the planet.""""

Flo and Raz both had additional ideas, but yes propose ideas. I don't think we will need polls upon polls for these just as much as discussion to arrive at a name we generally agreed on.

[Raz]

"Viracho" sounds like something I'd consume on a Tuesday at about 5PM

I like 'Xia' for the Asian-like one, it's a name with very old roots in China but I just like it and it hearkens back to a very ancient era of NS RP for some of us here as well.

To go on the root of the World's name being the same for EU/NA, Eperos "ee-peer-ohss" is from the Greek word for Continent.

South America/Africa? By the same sort of logic "Nahiya" is the Hausa (Nigerian-ish) word for continent.

[Flo]

I would second Xia and Eperos

[Seperallis]

I am the absolute worst when it comes to names, but I'll try to think of something.

[Zabuza825]

This is just a random thing I'm going to throw in, not sure if it'll help with deciding names since it's only relevant to the English language but hey.

In English, all continent names start and end with the same letter. And only one of those continent names doesn't start and end with A (that one is Europe).

Just a fun fact. We don't have to follow this rule for this world (in fact I really like Xia for the Asian continent), but hey it's out there now so yeah.

[Rommy]

Everyone cool with Xia and Eperos? I personally really like both of those.

Sal's the only one on the South America/Africa continent so let's get their input on its name since they probably have some ideas.

[Nentsia]

I have Kitezh in mind for some reason. It comes from Russian mythology, used to refer to a mythical monastery that vanished in a lake during a Tatar siege, drowning the Tatars. Only the holiest men can hear the chants of the Kitezh monks in the distance from under the water. Its definetely not some Russian copy-cat story of Atlantis.

[Sal]

All the names I tend to come up with are lame, but uhh...

Ideas for the light green/South America analogue.

Some Quechua-inspired ideas (for pronunciation, stress goes on the penultimate syllable; it's TAco, not taCO.):
- Runa - From the word for "people", [Runa llaqta].
- Alpa or Aipa - From the word for "land", [Allpa].
- Cararca - From the phrase "to feed thousands of people", [Pachan qararqan].
- Colcaya or Coicaya - From the word for "fertile", "lush", or "wealthy", [Qollqeyoq].
- Cumir or Caimir - From the word or "green", [Q'umir].

Some Aymara-inspired ideas (honestly, no clue how this language is pronounced but assuming it's similar, so use the rule above.):
- Utana - From the word for "homes", [Utanakasa].
- Usuri - From the word for "abundant", "wealthy", or "bountiful", [Usuri].
- Cawaia or Cawaya - From the word for "vast" or "wide", [Qawaya].


Or just choose a random Aztec or Incan god[dess] and use that. Whichever.

[Hadash]

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli then.

[Nentsia]

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli then.

Racist.