How this works

¶Each set on this site is a pair of hand-built lists: word-initial fragments and word-final fragments. Every fragment carries a meaning. When the generator joins Ael to wyn it also joins noble to friend, and the result is reported as both: the name, and the sense it was assembled from.

The fragments are not random syllables. Each set follows the phonetic rules of the tradition it belongs to — which consonants may open a word, which may close it, which combinations a reader of that tradition would recognise. That is why an elvish name and an orcish name are distinguishable at a glance even though they come out of the same machine.

Nothing here is scraped from a published setting. The meaning systems are original constructions, except where a real language is involved — Japanese elements and English surname roots carry their actual attested meanings, and any element we could not verify was dropped rather than guessed at.