Re: Remembering who we are

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Padrig Bryn yscrifef:

> As a necessary adjunct to the question of names, what is/are the customs
> regarding naming children in Cambria as a whole.

In Kernu:

> [t]he "proper" forms are essentially the Legal Latin forms of the names.
> Everybody has one and must know it, for no legal action can be taken
> without a proper name.

Putting this together with current French practice, I suspect that
the Kingdom (like the French Republic) maintains an official
onomasticon from which all children must be named.  The names
included would be:

	all names of saints (whether currently on the
	Index of Saints or not);

	all names from Greek, Roman, or Old Celtic mythology;

	other possibilities?

Exceptions are made for the Saison-speaking minority and for
those who can prove that a name has been used in their family
at least three times in the past five generations.

(Note new vocab item:  *bryn* 'brown', common Western Romance,
of Gmc. origin.)

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
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