About badger names
Deed compounds like "Pecanhunter", "Vineshaker", and "Carrotguard" name each badger for the work its paws actually do. The food-and-foraging vocabulary fits steadfast talking beasts in stories inspired by Narnia, the burrow keepers who hold a household together while kings come and go. The pantry words do double duty, telling readers at once what the badger loves and what it will defend.
How badger names are built
Badger names are a single two-part compound, fusing a plant or food word from a 73-item bank with a homey suffix from a 66-item bank. Worked examples from the bank: "Pecankenshor", "Podbeetkeer", "Vinesnorchel".
Pecankenshor
plant or food word plus homey suffix
Pearstoolbor
plant or food word plus homey suffix
Podbeetkeer
plant or food word plus homey suffix
Naming notes
The style is earthy and burrow-dweller, garden and pantry words welded onto cozy-sounding endings, which reads like a woodland animal's homestead name. Two large banks keep compounds varied. Use these for talking-beast characters or original woodland creatures in a fan story set in that style.
Questions about badger names
- Are these canon names?
- No. They are fan-made names in the earthy, woodland style of that setting's animals, not official ones.
- Why do they reference plants and food?
- The first bank holds garden and pantry words, fitting a homely burrow-dweller, joined to a cozy suffix.
- How long are the results?
- The two-part compound usually yields a longish single word built from two chunks.