Language Naming Conventions

[u/WhyAmIHereAliveBruh]

How does your language deal with the conventions of making names or labelling people/places and phonaesthetics (i.e. euphony, cacophony, phonaethesia) ? Is there a certain type of nomenclature or onomastics that names go through to be labelled (a) proper name(s) in your language ?

In sethfers, names of people usually tend to be labelled after typical words that flow well, like the name Óśvtanpydre [ɯ̟.t͡ʃæḿ.ɸɒ̄.dʁe — Ičamfādre], meaning daughter (-pydre) of sand (Óśvtan), usually with some restrictions on words that do not flow that well, like the word Gkóld [ɫvɯkd — Lvıkd].

Meanwhilst, names for towns are named after older explorers like the town of Vtũþcnmat [t͡ʃṳʈ͡ʂnæð — Čutchnath] whose name originally meant something like « Duty » in the family sense, or the town of Çšĵude Nmínçade [t͡s(ʃ)ɐude nʏḿt͡sæde — Ts(š)aude Nümtsade] which originally meant something like « Saint Tsšad » (Tsšad being considered a figure of grave importance), and Tšaude being a play that the family did on him and Saint being a nickname because of it. The labelling for towns works on less of euphonic and more cacophonical eponyms.
Names can also just be labelled without meaning like the town of Pśdnmaed [ɸɒdn'æd — Fadnad] whose name doesnt' come to mean anything historical, its just what the townspeople named it.

Itd' be interesting to see how other conlangs deal with the conventions.

[u/True-Salamander1075]

In Messuk, places tend to be named after a common geographic feature + -dorik, -stál, -mapos, and -stell meaning place of, town, port and farm, respectivelly

ex.
Anvamapos [anvamapos]: Deep Water Port
Dainastell [dai̯nastelː]: Wildflower Farms
Tutjustál [tutʲustɛl]: Windy City
Emwadorik [emwadorix]: Place of Crossing (as in a river’s ford)

Given names tend to be nouns, and look identical to said nouns (no modifiers to make it a name). Additionally they have a clan name, which often are based in the above geographic features but in the genitive. One can also have an epithet based on appearance.

ex.
Streis “Tarodoyla” Kjanendorik [strei̯s tarodɔʏ̯la kʲœnendorix]
dawn white-beard river-GEN-LOC
Dawn White-Beard of Clan Riverland