German in FFXIFollow

Cool, lotsa translation notes. Here's my contribution. After I did the DRG quest, I went to Norg to pick my wyvern's name and noticed a few of the wyvern names were German/Deutsch. I looked up a few of them and picked the one I liked best.

Eisenzahn - Iron tooth
Himmelskralle - Sky claw
Waffenzahn - Weapon tooth
Blutkralle - Blood claw


Also, there's a handful of French names (presumably to pair up with San d'Orian characters) as well as Tarutaru male names (so it can be assumed that all wyverns are indeed male). All Tarutaru males have hyphenated names that rhyme somewhat, such as: Ajido-Marujido, Boizo-Naizo, Kohlo-Lakolo, Savul-Kivul, etc., whereas all Tarutaru females have names where the last two syllables are the same: Apururu, Shantotto, Chamama, Boronene, etc.). I noticed that in Windurst, but I'm not sure if that's true of non-Windurstian Tarutaru. ...btw, can someone tell me whether the Native American-like Galka names are Galkan in origin or not? One Galka in the Metalworks complains about young Galkas taking on Hume-given names, but ironically this Galka doesn't have one of those Native American-like names, which leads one to think that a Hume named that poor Galka in Bastok Markets "Lame Deer"... that, or former Galka is a hypocrite.

So if San d'Oria has French nomenclature, the Far East is where objects and characters of Japanese culture originate from, and the Near East is representative of the Middle East, then where does the German language originate from in the world of Vana'diel, anyway? Every now and then you'll run into a character or an item with a German name, but thus far there's no definite parallel in Vana'diel.

German players + FFXI = Taru go bye bye ;-;

Lets not forget

Himmel Stock > Sky (or Heaven) Stick

searched a little, there are many more:

Helm - Helmet
Lindwurm skin - skin from the worm of the Linden tree
Degen - narrow sword
Schlaeger sword - Beater sword
Jagdplaute?? Hunt??
Drachenfall water - Dragon waterfall water
Valhala has german origin
Gustav tunnel
Crushed Krause NM in Gusgen
Flayer Franz
Reinberta - guildmaster
Karine and Ludwig - Mapdealers
Brunhilde - Merchant
Dietmund - Quest giver
Sieglinde - Recipe giver

LOL, all tapped out now.

Bei dem "Lindwurm" liegst du leider ein bisschen falsch, Riamondo. ^^

The one thing that the "Lindwurm" (lindworm, lindorm) and the "linden tree" have in common is the fact that the root "lind" is an old word for "bendable, soft, agile, tough". So both are exactly that, the tree as well as the Lindwurm.
"Wurm" is not "worm" in it its modern sense in this case though but originates in an old meaning of "Wurm" which is "snake, dragon". So the "Lindwurm" is an "agile snake/dragon".

@Deuciont
Why orange for the "Kaiserin"? It is a valid standard German word and as you rightly say the female version of "Kaiser". ^^
The Austrian Empress Elisabeth (1837 - 1898) being one example for an actual Kaiserin.

Edited, Wed Apr 5 12:11:24 2006 by Ninquelote