Duh. (What's in a name)

[auronlu]

Square's slightly off-kilter yet apt use of names amuses me -- contrariwise, there's also the extremely random Laguna and Irvine, which happen to be the two closest cities to mine. Methinks somebody took a couple of darts to a map of California and/or chose them under the "Let's pick names that are barely pronounceable to native Japanese speakers!" method that spawned Zell, Quistis, Squall, and Loire.

But I digress, as usual.

Point. Here it is? Ah yes.

Auron = "gold". No, actually, Aurum = gold, and Auron is a Latin word with Greek ending tacked onto it.

I assume everyone knows what his name means, and then I suddenly realize that not everyone gets Latin shoved through their pores in school anymore. So, just in case that had never clicked, there you are.

Why am I not finishing writing this chapter? Argh.

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[muggy-mountain.livejournal.com]

More on Final Fantasy names/trivia.

Grabbed from wikipedia: "Shin-Ra" is written with the Japanese kanji 神羅. The individual kanji mean "god"/"divine" and "snare"/"net"/"silk". The "Ra" is also often used to represent Rome.

This page http://www.ffcompendium.com/h/nchara.shtml#10 also provides some interesting possible leads, though I am not certain how accurate. :)

Also, http://www.answers.com/topic/hymn-of-the-fayth .

As far as writing goes, take all the time you need, but know you have at least one patiently waiting for the next chapter. :)

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

I love all the sun/moon symbolism! Neat. I bet most of that is pretty accurate. I had noticed Greek/Latin Aura "breeze, wind" or Auré "light, upper air" or Aurora "dawn" as well, but I'm not sure if those are correct echoes.

I think the -um got switched to -on because it's just easier to say words ending in -on. There's a lot of Greek/Latin crossover names in the series. (Kiros is another that comes to mind.)

[muggy-mountain.livejournal.com]

You know, it is posts like these that make me feel slightly more comfortable in my geekiness that looked up this game on a few scholarly journal databases. :)

And yes, there are articles out there. A few.

(Apologies if you get this five times...Livejournal has been behaving strangely on my end.)