Telecanter has been coming up with a very good series of post about village names and generation, and has asked the community at large to come up with 26 village names using every letter of the alphabet for different culture that we are familiar with. I figured that since i'm sort of french, I might as well take a crack at it for village names in ye olde France. They were after all a pretty big world power back in the days. When appropriate, the name will be followed by the literal translation in parenthesis, so people can figure out what those funny assortment of letters mean.
A: Avelin-sur-mer (Avelin on the sea)
B: Beauvoir
C: Castel-aux-murs (Castle by the walls/on the walls/with walls)
D: Ducey
E: évronville (évron-town)
F: Fortjaloux (jealous fort)
G: Guichaen
H: Havre-le-duc (Haven-the-duke)
I: Idylle-sur-lac (Idyll-on-lake)
J: Joliette (Pretty - suffix for small)
K: N/A *
L: Longue-riviere (Long-river)
M: Montambert (Mount ambert)
N: Notre-dame-de-la-croix (Our Lady of the cross)
O: Onèt-le-chateau (Onèt-the-castle)
P: Puy-sur-roche (well-on-rock)
Q: Quillon-les-sault (Quillon-the-falls)
R: Rouen-les-bains (Rouen-the-baths)
S: Soustonbourg (Souston-town)
T: Thion-aux-saules (Thion-at-the-willows)
U: Ulnay-sous-bois (Ulnay-under-wood)
V: Vix (The x is silent)
W: N/A *
X: Xéphus-des-saints (Xéphus-of-the-saints)
Y: Yssingeaux
Z: Zénith-en-plaines (Zénith-in-plains)
*Unlike english, in french, there are some letters with which words simply do no start. K and W are such of those. I just could not for the life of me find names that started with those letters. So, as an apology, here's a quick and dirty way to come up with french sounding name:
1: Pick a french sounding name. Like Félix, Roland, Louis, Joelle, Marine, etc..
2: Pick a location and drop it in google translate or use the above 26 semi-accurate translation
3: Add saint (for male), sainte (female) or notre-dame (female also) and add it in front of the name
4: Pick the appropriate transition word, en = inside, sur = next to, aux = around, sous=under or beneath,
5: Place the transition word between the name and the location and you are done!
You get names like Sainet-Justine-en-plaines ( Saint-Justine-in the plains), Saint-Michel-aux-sault (Saint-Michel-at-the falls)
Hope you like!
Sweet sauce! I'm copying this. Thanks and sorry for the delayed response.
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