Thread:FrenchTouch/@comment-9803708-20170427000746/@comment-6548012-20170427100918

Well, given that Okosko is, depending on the version just the fusion of Toghrul and Kongrul, which itself is nowadays used as a term to describe the Phœnix and Simurğ and because fuck griffins, I'd say Öksökö is a good idea. Plus it would seem to be cognate with the Mongolian өгсөх (why not the traditional script you might ask and go fuck yourself I might respond) which as you might've picked up from the all-knowing Wikipedia, means a lot of shit about going up. Though I suggest Kongrul be the name of the “governing elite,” impliciting that Toghrul is, uh, the rest.

Okay well I only remember two names, which were Serey and Phy. I really appreciate it when you give me a polished Romanized name AND I HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE FUCKING PROCESS OF REVERSE ENGINEERING THE WHOLE GODDAMN FUCKING HISTORY OF THE WHOLE GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING LANGUAGE YOU LAZY PIECE OF SHI&mdash;Ahem, sorry, had a little bit of an episode there. To be more serious though, សេរី or seɛrǝy (the right goddamn romanization) indeed comes from Sanskrit (because otherwise ស is not used since the 17th century) and qualifies an independent or free spirit, so far so good. សេរ (sér) is a shorter, useful variant. Phy interpelled me most because, well, that shit ain't Khmer, okay, like, at all. I still scavenged a fucking dictionary but indeed I was right, for there is no /f/ in Khmer, except in loan words. So hear ye, you'd think it might come from the Greek φεῖ just by looking at it but you've gotta look back at the history of Cambodia for a minute. It was united under French Indochina, so quite obviously Vietnamese culture sneaked in there, and, well, Chinese culture sneaked into Vietnam too, see what I'm sizzlin' boy, so basically you take Sino-Vietnamese words that correspond and you use them, for example, I have 飛 and 妃, both transliterated as fēi; one means fast, to fly, to travel and sorta metaphoric shit, whereas the other means spouse or couple in a quite archaic sense. Also check these etymology out because they're pretty funny, the first one comes from the pictogram 象形 which is a bird flying upwards and the second one is the mix of a woman (女) and a kneeling man. (卩) But anyhow, that's what I interpret Phy as, but I've no idea what it is, historically speaking.