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Renaming the third largest city of Kalm: Suggestions?
Posted by joschi81 on 18 November 2015 in English.The third largest city of my country was called “Pern” so far, which I never really liked, because it sounds like a stupid mixture between “Bern” (capital city of Switzerland) and the Russian city of “Perm”.
Now I have renamed it to “Preburg” (at least within the wiki), which sounds nice, I think - but it’s a quite boring name. So: do you have any suggestions for a nice German name for the city? I want “P” as the first letter. :) The rest is completely open. But it has to be a nice name, adapted to an important large city with almost 2 million inhabitants.
Thanks for your proposals!
I feel that I can still change the city name because I have only drawn some basic features yet.
Best regards joschi81
Discussion
Comment from thilo on 18 November 2015 at 20:37
“Preburg” immediately reminds me of “Preßburg” (historic german name of Bratislava).
Some ideas:
Prelen
Prenden
Pergard
Prän
Pröhl
Parehl
Perrahn
Perten
Praten
Peyen
Prentz
Penck
Comment from Egen on 18 November 2015 at 20:47
Pern sounds like a reference to Anne McCaffrey.
Maybe one of these will inspire something: Pendrach, Preuburg, Preulenz, Pollenz, Pollingen, Panafen, Paramund, Premden, Pressen, Petring, Pfeiburg, Pfaffingen, Pfallenz, Pfanden.
Comment from UnSoiDisantOracle on 18 November 2015 at 22:17
Prenzlauterberg ;)
Comment from stennes on 18 November 2015 at 22:26
Pröhlin/Pröhlinenburg (I mixed thilo’s suggestion)
Comment from Portopolis on 19 November 2015 at 04:17
Priestengladbach -Backstory Munich means “by the monks” roughly translated, their is a city in Germany called Monchengladbach so I jsut changed the name to “by the priest” terrible translation instead. Pfarrerstadt- Another word for city combined with Pfarrer or pastor/priest Poldervatz- made this up. Pilzen Prodast- Poppennburg Prestenfield
Comment from BMSOUZA on 19 November 2015 at 08:42
I would like to speak german, its a “strong” and beautiful language to me, but the few words I know are because I listen to Rammstein, hehehe.
About Moenchengladbach, during the 2006 World Cup, the brasilian TVs saw another translation to this name, something like “calm stream(waterway) monts”
If I name a city with germanic culture, it would like to finish in “-dorf” or “-heim”, or even in “-feld”, but I am affraid of accidentally create a word that exists and do a mistake. So, I will try…
But I prefer the Paxtar and dono87 suggestions, hehehe
Bruno Moreira
Comment from joschi81 on 19 November 2015 at 10:33
Thanks so far for all your different suggestions!
I haven’t decided yet, but I can say that something beginning with “P-“ and “-en” in the end is my favourite combination so far. “-berg”, “-burg”, “-enz”, “-ach” are already used for other large cities, so I’d prefer another ending. Not necessarily “-en” in the end, but another creative thing. :) Many of Thilo’s proposals are also close to what I need, but the perfect one isn’t there yet.
I like the Priest idea/reference. So “Priesten”, “Presten”, “Priest”, “Prest” (no, too close to “Brest”)… ? Not easy.
Many other suggestions you made sound very interesting and I will use them for smaller towns throughout the country, if you don’t mind.
Comment from Luciano on 19 November 2015 at 14:13
Long ago, I made a city with a German-inspired name, Pfennigbrüchen. There was a river called Pfennig. I lost the map, but it was a river city, so it might fit in. You’re free to adopt the name.
Comment from histor on 22 November 2015 at 15:48
Pern - why not? In german language it says nothing - a wunderful name with a little secret. And - “kurz und knackig”. Short names are the best. If you have suburbs, then “Pern-xyz” and not “Pernsteinburg-Wiesengrüngrund”.
Comment from joschi81 on 3 April 2016 at 02:46
I think now, I will stick to Pern. :)
Peyn (shorter version of thilo’s Peyen) and Prena would have been other choices.