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    Aurelie Moonsong
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vallavia View Post
    From what I've gathered, all Mystel follow [Given name]-[Surname], but female Mystel likely take their surnames from either a father or a husband, since there's a lot of overlap between male forenames and female surnames.
    Having gone through all the names and made lists, there's overlap in both directions. There are two distinct lists of name components: "List A" being a fixed surname-like form and "List B" having gendered variants (eg. Shirr/Shira). Male names always have an A-B structure and female names B-A.

    Logically that suggests a clear given name and family name structure, but there isn't a constant pattern to which half of the name gets used as the short form.
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    Last edited by Iscah; 01-09-2022 at 02:35 AM.

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    Rjvn Rakhar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
    Having gone through all the names and made lists, there's overlap in both directions. There are two distinct lists of name components: "List A" being a fixed surname-like form and "List B" having gendered variants (eg. Shirr/Shira). Male names always have an A-B structure and female names B-A.
    Very interesting; I hadn't picked up on the gendered variants though I admittedly had a much smaller sample size.

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    I'm dreading that this may also be the case for the rabbit men.
    Well, thanks for planting that fear!
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