Renaming Shady Acres

[loftar]

But I still maintain that Hladojutra looks better than Shady Acres.

Would you mind expanding on the linguistics on that? If it is not obvious, I'm a bit interested in such things. :)

[Potjeh]

Just trying to push through some Slavic names :p

Hlad means shade, and I think it's derived from the adjective hladno (cool).
Jutro means morning, but is also a unit of measure commonly used around here. One jutro is 1600 square hvats, or 5754.64 square meters.

[loftar]

I see. In that case, I should tell you that the reasonably probable interpretation of "Acre" in a place name is not in its meaning as a unit of land area, but in its older meaning, being approximately that of "field"; as I mentioned, it cognates with the Swedish word "åker", which means "field" in the agricultural sense (as in, a wheat field).

[Potjeh]

Ah, then polje would do. Hladopolje sounds better than Hladojutra anyway. And like every third village here contains the word polje in it's name, so it's credible too. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there's an actual village called Hladopolje.

[sami1337]

I liked shady acres better..
I guess i will forget about it's existence.

[Ferinex]

You cannot rename an area and expect it to remain credible. The worst thing you can do to a town/village is take away its name. I kind of thought it was a ghost town anyway?

[Jfloyd]

You cannot rename an area and expect it to remain credible. The worst thing you can do to a town/village is take away its name. I kind of thought it was a ghost town anyway?

No, it was just ruined by noobs. I'm taking it back over. Thats also one of the reasons I want it renamed, is because it was accociated with the Griefers.

[Yolan]

*shakes fist at JFloyd*

Nah, I didn't put a huge amount of thought into that name, so I'm not really mad if you want to change it.

I do seem to like the word 'shade'. My current base is in that I've called the umbral valley. I doubt anybody knows where that is, which suits me just fine for the nonce!

In any case, I am brimming with good place names that I will be running around assigning to places once the new world is in. Already researching maze designs for my 'labyrinth of despair'.

[Blaze]

What about a similar name, just not something compound?
Shayder? Shadmire?

Or perhaps names that are just made up?
Krizsan, Cotra, Sharamik, Tinraya, Formello, Marish, Tevrono, Kneece, Mynor, etc.

Also, there are a couple "Land words" that haven't been used yet if you wanted a compound name:
Mire, arbor, moor, den, outpost, plains, encampment, meadow, glade, thicket, vale, dale, haven, etc.

[Gauteamus]

Latin ager, noun. masc. means field/acre