Friday, April 22, 2011

What's the name of this no-horse hamlet?

The formatting is terrible but I think you get the idea.

900 Anglish places (d30 twice)
1 Ac(c)- -(a)y
2 Ash- -b(o)rough
3 Ast- -bost
4 B(o)urn- -bottom
5 Beck- -b(ur)y
6 Bex- -c(h)ester
7 Brad- -combe
8 Cheap- -cott
9 Chipping- -dale
10 Ey- -e(i)g
11 Holme- -field
12 Howe- -firth
13 Hythe- -ford
14 Keld- -forth
15 King- -foss
16 Kirk- -garth
17 Lang- -ghyll
18 Lei(gh)- -ham
19 Ley- -holm
20 Ling- -howe
21 Moss- -hythe
22 Nor- -ing
23 Shep- -law
24 Stan- -leigh
25 Stoke- -ness
26 Stow- -pool
27 Streat- -stead
28 Sud- -ton
29 Swin- -worthy
30 Weald- -wych

900 Frenchified places (d30 twice)
1 Aigre- -aie
2 Aver- -aine
3 Bosch- -bierres
4 Cal- -cadier
5 Carca- -cran
6 Chal- -cupe
7 Cur -de
8 Di- -dol
9 Ev- -dorra
10 Fren- -ens
11 Gi- -frece
12 Ker- -ignon
13 Lampi- -ir
14 Lu- -mes
15 Mer- -mont
16 Mor- -muis
17 Na- -neres
18 Nai- -nes
19 Noin- -oigne
20 Palom- -ones
21 Per- -re
22 Ra- -sonne
23 Ren- -sors
24 Sè- -tel
25 Tour- -urgne
26 Ur- -ven
27 Val- -ville
28 Vyn- -ys
29 Ya- -zès
30 Ylo- -zon

100 Corny places (d10 twice)
1 Aber- -axe
2 Bre- -cawl
3 L(h)an- -cledra
4 Nan- -denis
5 Pe(d)n- -dle
6 Pol- -illy
7 Pont- -perro
8 Porth- -rith
9 Tre- -treath
10 Usk- -zance

100 Welshish places (d10 twice)
1 Bl(a)en- -(a)mann
2 Ca(e)r- -afon
3 Coed- -bran
4 Cuum- -bryde
5 Din(as)- -coed
6 Lin- -divock
7 Mynydd- -dow
8 Nant- -llyn
9 Pant- -mawr
10 Ynys- -pant

Notes:
  • Some combinations will work better than others.  Some results may need a consonant or vowel added between the two elements to make them work.
  • While I did a modicum of research, these charts are meant to produce usable results rather than historical accuracy.  That being said, if you see anything that looks dopey to you, please speak up!

7 comments:

  1. Any chance you could do this for Germanic and Slavic hamlets? :D

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  2. How do you get to Coedpant?

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  3. Given that I have both britonnic and saxonish places in my campaign world this particular post is quite useful to me personally.

    Thanks!

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  4. Yes, this is totally badass. Thanks!

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  5. Along almost those same lines... (we must think alike) Chinese, UK, India, and Native American:
    http://inkwellideas.com/worldbuilding/random-or-not-city-name-charts/

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  6. Being Corny myself, I have to say that -afon and -idd are unmistakably Welsh, but I'll trade you -denis ("castle") and -elyan or -illy for them.

    I'm increasingly relying on captcha text for my fantasy names. Distis has a nicely wrong feel to it, like something that's been named twice in disapproval.

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