So, did ChatGPT succeed? I can’t confirm, cause I am not Estonian.

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  1. most of these are just 2 words put together that would normally be written separately and none of them really sound like they could be names

    the first word I could think of that includes öö and could be a name is pööbel, which is a somewhat derogatory term for the working class and according to name statistics ([https://www.stat.ee/nimed/pere/p%C3%B6%C3%B6bel](https://www.stat.ee/nimed/pere/p%C3%B6%C3%B6bel)) there are some people with that name

  2. Öö means night. So it connects nonsense adjectives or adverbs to it mostly. Päikseöö is even an oxymoron. Having a surname associated with night is probably extremely rare in any case.

  3. Estonian surnames came in two waves first in 1816-1819 with the abolition of serfdom and then on 1930s when there was a movement of Estonianizing the German names as a lot of german landlords had given their former serfs German names. Mostly what AI has came up are kind of names for a protagonist of a 1980s futuristic novel, like Kivimööbel (Stonefurniture), Hiireöö (micenight)

    Kööpöö – funny sound but not really authentic sounding. Kööp is Estonian name. Kööpa, Kööbik etc would be. (Kääbik is the Hobbit in Estonian). Having the second vowel some other vowel rather than ö would be more authentic and also short not long.

    Some are just antigrammatical

    These ones should be two words, can’t be written as one word in Estonian. Lumine öö (snowy night), Õnnelik öö (lucky night), Kuum öö (hot night), roheline öö (green night), Tähistaeva öö (starry sky night), Loominguline öö (creative night), Kivine öö (stony night), Kuuvalge öö (Moonlight night), Tuisune öö (snowstormy night), Värskendav öö (refreshing night)

    Unenäöö Something happened as word unenägu dream was cut in the middle of a word and night then night is added.

    Öösärk nightgown is just funny word for a name.

  4. Nah, it failed miserably. None of them are surnames. Only öösärk is a correct word. Some of them are oxymoron like “päikeseöö”(sun’s night?) night literally means lack of sun. Both of them cannot exist at the same time because they are part of the same “coin”. Rest of them are poor attempt to characterize a night like green night(rohelineöö) or stoney night(kivineöö). It seems that ChatGPT doesn’t know the meaning of words and how to characterize objects and events. Basically it’s cognitive capabilities are nonexistent.

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