bad at naming and looking for a neutral Slovak-sounding name that vibes with the pictures below, it doesn’t have to be an existing name, thanks

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  4. Random one: Jazerník, male, literal translation “laker”. If you saw it on a Slovak map it would fit in.

  12. It’s pretty hard to find neutral sounding names in slovak language tbh, because slavic languages are very “gendered” if you know what I mean. Nowadays there are bunch of names that are gender neutral (e.g. Alex), but they are borrowed from other languages. Only name I can think of is Vesna – it’s originally female name (old slavic goddess of spring, youth and life), but I think it could be viewed as pretty neutral name in English.

  14. If you mean having unisex character name related to nature, then my suggestion would be to use shortened names. Specifically here I think something like *Rosťa* can work, it may be short for female Rostimíra but also male for Rostislav. The *rost* prefix means to grow, with the Rostimíra meaning to “she who grows the peace (or world in eastern slavic)” while the Rostislav/Rastislav means to “he who grows fame/glory”

    Another similar short name could be be something like *Sveťa* which can be short for male Svetoslav as well as female Svetlana. If you keep the character androgynous looking then this short name will not exactly reveal their sex.

  19. Radegastové ˇúdolie ? Looks untouched except the bottom left one but since u can call it Radegasts the fences can be his markings

  21. Môj odhad, Môžem sa mýliť!

    1. Vysoké Tatry
    2. Vysoké Tatry
    3. Poľana
    4. Veľká Fatra
    5. Malá Fatra

  22. Are you looking for a name for a person (like a character), or a name for a place?

    Is it supposed to be a gender-neutral name for a person? That’s a very tough question. Masculine and feminine nouns have very different declination in Slovak grammar, and as a result, genger-neutral names are basically not a thing, because they’d be very awkward to actually use.

    The only plausibly sounding gender-neutral examples would be names ending with consonant clusters followed by -a suffix. Though it’s pretty tough to come up with one, where the male version wouldn’t more plausibly end with -o. I honestly can’t think of an example that’s distinctly slovak-sounding. Only examples I can think of sound more like surnames.

    Is this for some video game? or a book? who’s likely the target audience?

  23. Neznámo – the unknown
    Zálesie – deep in the forest (more of like forest surrounded area, not in a creepy way)
    Lesisko – a grand forest (may be interpreted with a negative/derogatory undertone)

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