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I have no formal trainging in the evolutions of sound changes over time, but Muke has come up with two of the same suggestions that I would have. I could even make the following suggestions built on what Muke has said: Rhenanice could collapse to Rhenice and Rhenane could collapse to Rhena or Rhene as well. Interesting that my collapsing comes to one of the names you could think of. Depending of the relation to other Romance languages in the area you could also use "-que" in the endings Rhenanique, Rhenique Beginning with the name Rhenania, you could even apply some of the naming ideas that you see in modern languages in general. Slovakia -> Slovakian Slovenia -> Slovenian Rhenia -> Rhenian the above refer to English names for these area of course. Regimonti would drop the "h" in the name and you would see a name that would look something like Rhenanice ->Renanice /rena'nice/ Rhenane->Renan,e /re'nanje/ Rhenice->Renice /re'nice/ Rhena/Rhene -> Ren,e /'renje/ Naming your conlang is like naming your child! Good luck and let us know what you decide and give us a few insights into your language! Scotto Rumansa website: http://www3.telus.net/public/scottoh/rumansa/ -----Original Message----- From: romconlang@yahoogroups.com [mailto:romconlang@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Muke Tever Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 6:20 AM To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [romconlang] language names - adverbs? Peter Collier <petecollier@hidden.email> wrote: > I wish I'd paid more attention in Latin class all those years ago! > > How would you derive a language name from Rhénus (The riverRhine) in Latin? Rhéné? Or would it more likely be devolvedsomehow from Rhénánia (my Roman province *there*)? The adjective from Rhe:nus is Rhe:na:nus; thus if you had a language "lingua Rhenana" the adverb would be "Rhe:na:ne:". If you were to derive it from Rhe:na:nia, it'd be lingua Rhe:na:nica, and Rhe:na:nice:. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]