Solmyr/Solymr ibn Wali Barad

mr.hackcrag · Unread postby **mr.hackcrag** » 21 Oct 2006, 17:00

DaemianLucifer wrote:A thought occurs:Since genies have been known to change their sex,do they still need two individuals to procreate(like slugs)or is one enough?Is wali barad solmyrs father or both father and mother?

Maybe the slug is his father?

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 21 Oct 2006, 17:59

DaemianLucifer wrote:A thought occurs:Since genies have been known to change their sex,do they still need two individuals to procreate(like slugs)or is one enough?

Why would they need to sexes if one was enough?! I'm gonna go with 2.

okrane · Unread postby **okrane** » 21 Oct 2006, 18:25

Voted both... why? well... if you have made me choose between Solmyr and just Solymr... I would say Solmyr since it can be pronounced easier and I must say I too belived at first to be a spelling error...

But Solymr ibn Wali Barad has also a nice ring to it... like some arabic mithologic name... so it's cool

Khaelo · Unread postby **Khaelo** » 22 Oct 2006, 02:00

"Wali" means "friend" in Arabic. (Confirmed by Wikipedia, but I first learned it in an academic class on Islam.) Wikipedia also says that "Barad" means "cold" (citation). Given genies' fondness for snow towns and Ice Bolt, I think that makes sense. Neither Solmyr nor Solymr appears to be a genuine name/word in any language, at least according to Google.

Voted "Solmyr." Solymr is tempting because people use the nickname "Soly" for him, but I like the original version's pronunciation better.

Kareeah Indaga · Unread postby **Kareeah Indaga** » 22 Oct 2006, 02:30

Vote Solmyr

I prefer the spelling Solmyr but I normally pronounce it Solymr. Odd, I know.

mr.hackcrag · Unread postby **mr.hackcrag** » 22 Oct 2006, 03:43

I voted Solymr because that is the closer spelling to the way I actually say his name: Sa-li-mer.

vicheron · Unread postby **vicheron** » 24 Oct 2006, 03:36

Voted Halon. Green skinned Genies are the best.

Orfinn · Unread postby **Orfinn** » 24 Oct 2006, 22:13

Solymr (H4)

Training for the tounge. And sounds funny too.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 24 Oct 2006, 22:40

Orfinn wrote: Training for the tounge. And sounds funny too.

This really depends on the proper pronunciation. For all we know it's pronounced the same way in both cases.

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 25 Oct 2006, 18:26

Solmyr ['sɔl mi:r]
Solymr ['sɔ li mr] or ['sɔ li mər]
[ɔ] alternates with [o] because of habit (Romanian doesn't have [ɔ])

For me, at least.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 06 Nov 2006, 11:28

You do realize that most of us have no ideea how you pronounce those, right?!

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 06 Nov 2006, 18:38

That's why I added the last line.

It's very simple, actually (even if you don't have the phonetics course right next to you

). I'm sure you can find all this somewhere on the Internet.

[ɔ] is open "o", as in English "stop" or the Hungarian vowel written as "a". [ə] is the "ă" sound of Romanian, or the "er" part of the English words "better", "waiter".

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 06 Nov 2006, 19:33

theLuckyDragon wrote:I'm sure you can find all this somewhere on the Internet.

Not with a ro explination.

So, no one else cares about ye ol' djinn?

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 06 Nov 2006, 19:38

I'm pretty sure Romanian isn't your only language.

vhilhu · Unread postby **vhilhu** » 06 Nov 2006, 20:04

Solmyr is actually an anagram of mr. Osly (o is replaced with y just to make it less obvious).

This shows clearly that he is actually a norsk.

its all because nwc wanted to move genies to mountains.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 06 Nov 2006, 20:15

theLuckyDragon wrote:I'm pretty sure Romanian isn't your only language.

LIES... where did you hear that?

C'mon, no arabs around here?! Or a nameologist?

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 06 Nov 2006, 20:22

ThunderTitan wrote:nameologist?

The Mad Dragon · Unread postby **The Mad Dragon** » 07 Nov 2006, 05:51

Solmyr just looks more appealing to my eyes(the word, not the picture

)

Khaelo · Unread postby **Khaelo** » 08 Nov 2006, 05:58

After extensive research, I have concluded that NWC wasn't too picky about the linguistic heritage of their genie names. As found with Google and a bunch of name sites:

Aenain: not real name
Aine (Gaelic): radiance, happiness
Alem (Arabic): wise man
Brissa (Spanish): Short form of Briseida, from Briseis, the Greek name of the woman loved by Achilles in Homer's "Iliad."
Daremyth: not real name
Fafner (Norse): mythical dragon [Siegfreid]
Halon (English): Any of several halocarbons used as fire-extinguishing agents.
Iona (Greek): violet; (Scottish) placename of island
Jubal (Hebrew): “small stream” or “ram’s horn,” mentioned in Bible as first musician
Neela (Sanskrit): blue
Qubar: not real name???
Sharah (Arabic) Not sure what it means as a name; as a word, it means "commentary" (BTW, Arabic-to-English web translators are useless to English speakers.

) It's also a word and/or word root in Biblical Hebrew.
Solymr/ Solmyr: not real name
Thane (English/Scottish): Noble title for feudal landholders
Yog: not real name...but see this.

My favorite is Halon.

DaemianLucifer wrote:A thought occurs:Since genies have been known to change their sex,do they still need two individuals to procreate(like slugs)or is one enough?Is wali barad solmyrs father or both father and mother?

Another thought occurs: If genies procreate but are immortal and never die (in H4, Solmyr implies that they cannot die), then the genie population is ever-increasing. Can they all stay on the Plane of Air? Is the world to be swamped with genies?

The Mad Dragon · Unread postby **The Mad Dragon** » 08 Nov 2006, 08:00

Genies can alter their shape, and usually, have a master, so it's not so much that they need to procreate.

Besides, I've never heard of genies procreating anyways.

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