Trouver un bon nom pour la bebe d'Andre

Finding a good last name from Andre's baby

Andre's family last name is originally 吳 [wu2], a patrilineal last name. Since he lives in Jakarta, it's a common practice to camouflage Chinese name into English names, or Javanese names. I read in his blog that he needs suggestion for a name. I therefore do a little research on this.

Check the pronunciation of 吳 in Various Chinese dialects

Mandarin (hanyu pinyin): wu2
Cantonese (jyutping): ng4

Hakka (default)[Meixian]: ng2 [Dongguan] : ng2 [MacIver] : ng2 [Lufeng]: ng3 [Siyan] :ng2 [Hailu] : ng2 [Bao'an]: ng2 [Lau Chunfat]: ng2

Minnan/Taiwanese: gou5

English Meaning[1]: the name of a state in the Warring states period [2] the name of a state in the Epoch of the Three Kingdoms

The same character also appear in Japanese, the sound for 呉　is as following; konyomi is くれ [kure]、and onyomi is either ご[go]　or げ[ge].

If we browse we breakdown character 吳, in Chinese it's called 口天吳 [kou tian wu] to clarify speech and differes from other wu characters.

口 [kou3] : mouth or opening

天 [tian1] : Sky, God

Here's the names I can suggest.

Stick to the original Hokkian sound. Choose Go as a last name.

Convert the root 口天 into latinate pairs and come up with names like below.

Mouth in latin is Os or Oris, God in latin is Deus, Sky is Caelum or Divum.

We can coin a name from two of these words resulting in:

Osdeus, Orideus, Deusoris, Deusos, Caelos, Osdiva, Oridiva, Divoris, Caeloris. Now you got a lot of latinate name to choose from.

In Japanese, くし[kuchi] and こう[kou], is how you pronounced 口, and てん[ten] and あめ[ame] or あま[ama] to pronounce 天. From this end, you can have a word like.

こうてん　[kouten], くちてん[kuchiten], くちあま[kuchiama], こうあま[kouama]

In ceteris paribus, Korean renders a different sound for 口天吳, they are pronounced as 구천오[goocheon-o]. It doesn't even tickle my ears to have goocheon for a name, but I'm just making suggestions.

Below is the arabic pairs.

口= فاه

天= مَوْلًى

I still don't know what romanization for those two arabic script I copied from online dictionary at http://dictionary.ajeeb.com, however I shall append it once I got the correct romanization.

Let's try with Greek pairs then.

口= στόμα [stoma]

天= Θεός [theos]

mmh, this sounds pretty cool too. stomatheos, theostoma, your choice.

I personally think, Orideo or Deoris may be a good Choice, but the final choice belongs to Andre.

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