Neo-Orcish: A Small Request

[Gashuk]

If it helps!

Gashuk was never meant to directly translate into Orcish, it just seemed like quite a visceral, gutteral name that would roll off the tongue, potentially quite common.

He has had three surnames from separate Om'riggors. Bloodfire, Felhand and Soulfury.

He is a Shadowmoon Orc, through and through, originally a Shaman but delved into Fel during the war on the Draenei and has stuck ever since (apart from a brief foray back to the Spirits during Warlords). He is honourable, loyal and driven by the Horde and the Tribe; I always based his character on the basis of doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

[Maggrak]

Well, Regorn never meant anything really.

First he was named Regor, then I saw it was taken when I realm-transfered so I added an N.

If the name does not have one, I would still like to know what sort of translation of the name would fit your character's personality. Lastly, I would like to know what clan your character originated in. It will be of tremendous help to me to try and make the dialects as realistic and identifiable as possible.

Well, Regorn was Shadowmoon clan, but he abandoned it and refused to refer himself as one.
Regorn was a lot of Guilt, Shame and Death-wish.
But also honor, duty and respect (Toward Higher-ranked, Elders, the Elements and the Spirits).
Also a massive hatred of Fel and Demons.

Thank you, Regorn. Can work with that!

Whilst my Orc's names don't mean anything. Some Orcish words in game can be translated from context.

For example Orgrimmar, Thrallmar, Vol'mar. all three are settlements, all three have ''mar'' at the end. So for example it's pretty likely that Mar means Town/City.

Anyhow I wish you good luck! I made something similar for Zandali once and it was a quite a chore :p

The thing about the context works both ways though. It depends on concepts, but their definitions can differ immensely. You could argue that "mar" could rather mean stronghold or fortress as "gol" seems to mean "home". It isn't extremely definite. And translations for words that we think of as definite and thereby canon lack a lot of evidence to make them so either. Take phrases interpreted in Rise of the Horde for example, they are almost never literally translated, only given a rough meaning by interpretation of the surrounding text.

Do you still have the Zandalari around?  I would be interested to see what you made!

If it helps!

Gashuk was never meant to directly translate into Orcish, it just seemed like quite a visceral, gutteral name that would roll off the tongue, potentially quite common.

He has had three surnames from separate Om'riggors. Bloodfire, Felhand and Soulfury.

He is a Shadowmoon Orc, through and through, originally a Shaman but delved into Fel during the war on the Draenei and has stuck ever since (apart from a brief foray back to the Spirits during Warlords). He is honourable, loyal and driven by the Horde and the Tribe; I always based his character on the basis of doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

Shadowmoon, got it. Cheers!

[Mozrogg]

Mozrogg is just another guttural sound that i thought sounded quite throaty for an orc, I never really had anything in mind for what his name could mean, although something that involved war, or yelling or somesuch would be appropriate! He is a Warsong.

[Revax]

Revax. Don't think I ever had a meaning in mind! He is Blackrock. Maybe you can figure something out

[Maggrak]

Mozrogg is just another guttural sound that i thought sounded quite throaty for an orc, I never really had anything in mind for what his name could mean, although something that involved war, or yelling or somesuch would be appropriate! He is a Warsong.

Thank you, Moz. I can make that work!

Revax. Don't think I ever had a meaning in mind! He is Blackrock. Maybe you can figure something out

Blackrock. Got it