Learning Greek

I'm making a monster name generator for my game. Traditionally video game monsters have Greek names. So I need to know basic Greek inflection rules to turn noun into an adjective, suitable for monster name. For example greek word for gold is "chrysos" (yes, Jesus Christ got greek surname). Now would "chrysis" be the correct word for golden? Now Google Translate claims it is chrysafenous, but I'm dead sure the ancient Greek word for "golden" is "chrysis", and google translate also translates "chrysis" as "golden". WTF is with that chrysafenous?

Ogtha

>>31

The Vermin Infested Church

Shalom!

Shalom shalom jew man

Hebrew names could be useful too. Although they are traditionally used only for demons, like Malakay in The Children of The Corn, or countless demons in Diablo. For monster names, Hebrew names have to be greekified. I.e. Ezra => Esdras.

>>44
The greekification is tricky, since there is no precise rules. I.e. Malakay can be greekified in several ways.

>>45
Just replace the ending with -us. Malakaus or Malakus.

>>45,46
the correct greekification would be Malakas. trust me on that.

>>47
The Virgin Malakas vs Chad 𝔐𝔞𝔩𝔞𝔎𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰

>>47
"Malakas (Greek: μαλάκας [maˈlakas]) is a commonly used profane Greek slang word, with a variety of different meanings, but literally meaning "man who masturbates"."

>>49
that's the joke. thanks for explaining, anus

>>46
-us is not a Greek ending at all.

>>51
Gee, is Zeus greek?

>>51
Ze-us, child of Chron-us living on Mt. Olymp-us.

>>52-53
The ending of Zeus is -eus, with the diphthong -eu-, not -us, and the ending of ``Chronus'' (Χρόνος) and ``Olympus'' (Ὄλυμπος) is -os, you brainlet.

>>84
We're not discussing translating Greek, just using/emulating Greek-style names and "Greek" spelling doesn't mean the word is direct borrowing from Greek language. Think of it as a "Greek style" names, which are similar to established English loanwords and adding -us ending would make sense.

>>54
An -us

>>55
What you're saying is that you don't know the difference between Greek loans and Latin loans that may or may not ultimately be of Greek origin. You can get away with that if your target audience is 100% Americans but it's not likely to be.

>>57
Latin/Greek loanwords are actually the best, because they sounds recognizable and ancient at same time. The whole "Ancient Occult Latin Chanting" vibe, but with more Greek-sounding content with "Apocalyptic"/"Religious" vibes. This is the whole point of adding them to a videogame.

This is the source of the appeal of using Latin/Greek.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OminousLatinChanting
Latin is probably the most familiar dead language due to its being the ancestor of modern Romance languages (even though English is a Germanic language, it still has a major proportion of Latin influence, primarily through French and science), and its prominence and impact on modern culture make it easy to fact-check. Nevertheless, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Hebrew and others are sometimes used to similar effect. If a work is set in Russia or the Soviet Union, expect Ominous Slavic Chanting.note Eastern-style chanting is also having a surge in popularity, possibly due to the increase in stories featuring conflicts between Eastern and Western worlds. Creators that went to the trouble of inventing their own language for a work will likely find a way to feature it in this manner too.

>>57 Thats actually pretty common
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AncientGrome

>>60
Yeah, and it sucks every time.

Use Russian instead of Greek for fantasy names for better immersion.

>>62
I want fantasy creatures, not alcoholics, vatniks, bydlos, whores, commies and nikita

Nikita is a fantasy creature himself.

>>64
no, he's just a russian

>>65
from the motherland of fantasy

>>66
more like motherland of vodka

>>7

Vernacular and grammar isn't really learning the language though.

http://ai.neocities.org/LangLearn.html