Old Naumes names

Old Naumes names are formed in a variety of ways. They can either be derived from a verb using a set of nominalising suffixes (shown in the table below) where a suffix can be "active" (denoting that the person is the agent of the verb) or "passive" (meaning the person is the patient of the verb, or that he is the agent of the verb in the past tense). Names can also be "dithematic" or made up of two elements, either noun+noun, noun+adj or noun+supine verb. A lesser amount of names are monothematic or made of a single element such as a single adjective, noun or supine verb. | Hypocoristic names are shorterned forms of dithematic names and in some cases have become full names in their own right. Such names are formed by attaching the suffixes -īz (for men) and -el (for women) onto either the first or second element of the name (if the element ends in V(ʔ) then this was sometimes elided): Taddāḥklaḥ ("ice cat") > Taddāḥiz/Taddiz/Taddāḥel/Taddel. When a root ending in a glottal stop is compounded before another beginning in a consonant, the glottal stop is lost.

A small handful of names were borrowed from Old Moca. These include Nazukhel (<Nazuker), Drūkhaghel (<Drūkāger) and Gēzūnel (<Gēsūnör).

Monothematic names
Monothematic names in Old Naumes are mostly made of names which descend from Old Sumrë names, and so the meaning and internal division of those names is blurred thanks to sound changes so they are seen as one element to Old Naumes speakers. A small amount of monothematic names are simply single words from Old Naumes. The names that descend from Old Sumrë names are usually those of individuals in mythology or semi-historical figures, for example the names of the first humans said to exist are very popular among the Naumes as personal names (those names in particular go much further back to Proto-Sumro-Naukl).

=Surnames=

The Naumes people take on two surnames. The first surname can be any word so long as it alliterates with the father's forename. The second surname can also be any word so long as it alliterates with the mother's forename.

Examples:
 * Madili Ham Piddīll (Madili Road Abundance") - with the father Hamodde and the mother Pimsōz.
 * Bhāndhagīlal Nodwaghatt Ili (Bhāndhagīlal that-which-cuts ant colony) - with the father Nokhaswe and the mother Illiddaliz.