Today, I thought I'd try something a bit more adventurous. Following on from the various random name generator lists I've been toying with, I thought I'd have a go at trying to make a Greek sounding random location name generator.
From the outset, I'm going to emphasise that I'm not a native speaker of Greek!! I do have some classical training from many many years ago, but overall, I'm not going to vouch for how "Greek" these names might or might not come out as sounding to native Greek ears.
Here's the idea. Take an element from the first column (Element Alpha) and combine with EITHER an element from the third column (Element Omega), or an element from the second (Element Beta) AND third column (Element Omega).
Element Alpha
|
Element
Beta
|
Element Omega
|
A
|
Ac
|
A
|
Ab
|
Acter
|
Aca
|
Ach
|
And
|
Ae
|
An
|
Apo
|
Age
|
Ar
|
Bae
|
Ana
|
Cary
|
Cae
|
Des
|
Chry
|
Che
|
Dos
|
Cor
|
Chi
|
Dus
|
Dec
|
Dan
|
Ene
|
Ele
|
Delt
|
Essa
|
Eur
|
Den
|
Gora
|
Ger
|
Er
|
Ia
|
Gy
|
Geth
|
Inth
|
Hera
|
Hen
|
Kis
|
Ill
|
In
|
Kos
|
Ith
|
Iph
|
La
|
Kas
|
Ko
|
Lis
|
Leb
|
Lan
|
Ma
|
Lor
|
Mak
|
Me
|
Me
|
Man
|
Mos
|
My
|
Mo
|
Nae
|
Nau
|
Na
|
On
|
Ol
|
Nar
|
Os
|
Pan
|
O
|
Phon
|
Par
|
On
|
Pia
|
Pha
|
Phi
|
Polis
|
Pre
|
Phla
|
Pylae
|
Pser
|
Re
|
Ros
|
Ptol
|
Ron
|
Rya
|
Rho
|
Sil
|
Sos
|
Siph
|
So
|
Tas
|
Sy
|
Ssa
|
Tha
|
Sy
|
Sta
|
Thon
|
Ta
|
Th
|
Tia
|
Tau
|
Tor
|
Tis
|
Tha
|
Ve
|
Tus
|
Ther
|
Y
|
Us
|
Thra
|
Ymp
|
Ymna
|
Using this format, I'm able to generate names such as: Olympia; Rhodes; Caryanda; all of which are real Greek places, as well as invented others which are reasonably pleasing to my ears: Pserphlathon; Medeltus, Olmakene, etc. Enjoy!
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