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CyclopsMC / IntegratedDynamics

A Minecraft mod to take full and automated control of your appliances.
http://cyclopsmc.github.io/IntegratedDynamics/
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[Question]Can you talk about the meaning of "Menril"? #321

Closed Flithor closed 6 years ago

Flithor commented 7 years ago

It seems to be a coinage. Current Chinese is a direct transliteration, looks very strange and hard to pronounce.

rubensworks commented 7 years ago

Menril is actually a word from the fictional Sindarin language, in which it means "sky"+"glitter".

Feel free to change it if you feel like you would have a better translation for it.

Flithor commented 7 years ago

Does the word describe the stars?

rubensworks commented 7 years ago

Not really, it actually doesn't really have a meaning.

I simply chose that word because it's the combination of sky and glitter in Sindarin. Which makes sense, because Menril is blue and a bit shiny.

But feel free to change it to another (potentially meaningless) word in Chinese that also sounds nice.

Flithor commented 7 years ago

I can't find this word in Sindarin dictionary...

rubensworks commented 7 years ago

It's a combination of two words. I don't remember exactly how I combined them though.

Flithor commented 7 years ago

menel(sky) + ?-ril(glitter) But I can't find any words end with "-ril" meaning glitter....

Flithor commented 7 years ago

Try to translate to the"星域", meaning is "the region of the stars".

From Sindarin word "menel" meaning:

menel - n. sky, high heaven, firmament, the region of the stars

The star is light & glitter, and region of stars is the sky. ~How is it?~ But it seem not contains the meaning of sky blue...