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Old 12-01-2020, 08:43 AM   #14
jason taylor
 
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Default Re: How do you name things?

Adoptees use Xgiven or Ygiven as Patronyms/Matronyms at times when the adoptive status is to be emphasized.

That could be for several reasons. The most distinguished is when someone is named fictive heir to a chief or other clan position. Then the original parent's name is recorded in geneology. But the "Giftparent's" name is used in clan ceremony and political councils.

By contrast illegitimates emphasize the Giftparent unless there is an expedient marriage between the guilty parties. While the primary stigma falls on the parents being a "child of foolishness" is not the best compliment. And if the father fails to confess no one wants to be a "son of a coward". In the event of rape, especially an unavenged one being a "Child of violence" is not much fun either (in the later case the blood-father is simply not counted in geneology;he is an unperson).

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Different guilds and societies have title structures of their own:

The head council of a guild are the Archon's. The Archon Basilus is an honorary post, and often held by someone untrained in a craft (Doges and the Archducca have all have several basilus titles).

Honors below that are handed out for notable achievement.

For a purely bureaucratic post which does not require experience in a given craft I use "Reeve".
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