Cādessi name

Cādessi names are even more complex than Ħautar names. They consist of:

Tarō uc gōni (personal name) - a personal nickname. This is the only one that is not fixed after it is decided except in special circumstances. Followed by ā tarō ‘known as’

Tarō uc anō (birth name) - traditionally chosen from the set of standard glyphs, matching the first syllable of one of the parents’ tarō uc simmō, with siblings named after alternating parents (if one is named for the father, the other is named for the mother) and with the first son typically named after the father and the first daughter after the mother. but it can be anything, really. This is the one that’s inflected.

Tarō uc simmō (work name) - determined upon adulthood (traditionally between the ages of 22 to 24, depending on regional customs) based on the skill one has developed and been apprenticed as. this is in the oblique case

Tarō uc mammavō (genonym) - a parent’s name in the ablative case, traditionally of the parent whose name stars with the same syllable as the child’s; preceded by tān vi for a patronym and tān uc for a matronym. For orphans, and exiled and disowned individuals, tān vi Naxissat or tān uc Naxissat (lit. ‘child of the gods’)

Tarō uc loxī (clan name) - the name of the clan. Absent for clanless individuals. Preceded by tes and in the nominative case.

Usually, the *tarō uc gōni* is used only for children and by close acquaintances; in other cases, the usual way to address someone is using the tarō uc anō, followed by: the tarō uc simmō if the addresser and addressee are of similar social standing, if the addressee is older or the addressee’s superior, or in informal situations; the tarō uc mammavō if the addresser is older or the superior or in semi-formal situations; and the tarō uc loxī in highly formal situations. This varies by region, e.g. the tarō uc gōni is rarely a thing in the west, and the tarō uc mammavō is informal or even offensive in the north-east.

Example: Ōlnō, ā tarō Loxī Coruza, tān vi Lansissa, tes Ereu; literally ‘Ōlnō, known as Merchant Loxī, daughter of Lansuza, clan Ereu’.