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Has anyone noticed that some of the characters, though in european gear have names that dont sound very european?
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Whats your definition of "European"? There's English, Scandinavian, Slavic, Greek, Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish and etc.), Germanic and etc.

Vladek ... perhaps the name was derived from a Romanian origin with "Vlad", as in Vlad Dracul, the Romanian prince who fought agaisnt the Turkish invaders? Considering Vlad being the base for what became the legend of Dracula... kinda obvious why the bad guy would have such a name.
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i was thinking mor eof jayku and danju<sp>

Granted i'm not a linguist but those sound rather japanese?
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I'm no linguist but it sounds like they were named by the same foolish person who named those Bioncle action figures, and Gal... I can't even type the word it will give me the hives.

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JPinoy wrote:Whats your definition of "European"? There's English, Scandinavian, Slavic, Greek, Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish and etc.), Germanic and etc.

Vladek ... perhaps the name was derived from a Romanian origin with "Vlad", as in Vlad Dracul, the Romanian prince who fought agaisnt the Turkish invaders? Considering Vlad being the base for what became the legend of Dracula... kinda obvious why the bad guy would have such a name.
I believe it derives from the Slavic "volod" which means "rule" or maybe "ruler" or something of that nature. Vlad Tepes, aka Dracula ("the little dragon"), aka Vlad the Impaler, was Wallachian, though Wallachia later joined with Moldavia to form Romania.

Vladek seems most obvious to me as a heavy because of Vladek Sheybal, who portrayed any number of sleazy bad guys, the most memorable probably being Kronsteen in From Russia with Love.
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I never thought of it... I suppose so
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akochan wrote:I'm no linguist but it sounds like they were named by the same foolish person who named those Bioncle action figures, and Gal... I can't even type the word it will give me the hives.

-Andy
Actually at lot of the Bionicle names are derived from Polynesian and other pacific islander and Asian words.
- Toa means hero
- nui means land
- onua means earth
and in several SE Asian languages, including my own Filipino, the word Mata means eye. Some pac. islanders have languages such as Samoan related to Malay languages.

Dunno about Danju.... according to google the word Danju isn't limited to Japanese.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... -8&q=Danju

The same with Jayku....
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl= ... ff&q=Jayku
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i think medivel names depended on what class in society you were and probably alot of people were named after saints and bible names.
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groovyd2001 wrote:i think medivel names depended on what class in society you were and probably alot of people were named after saints and bible names.
Yes. But apparently the people who created this new Knights' Kingdom series didn't care a MegaBlok about reality.


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