Pokemon Name Meanings Page 3

Started by Natsuki March 24th, 2005 12:43 PM
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Just to let you know, a couple of those are wrong.
www.pokemondungeon.com/ 's Pokedex shows the correct name meanings.
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Oh that doesn't really tell me what Miltank's name means,but thanks anyways! ^^
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It's based off of MILK TANK, what you literally say what a cow is.
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I guess nobody tried this for raikou. RAI- Of couse thunder (but thats not the whole word!) KOU- Cougar :rambo:
Actually "Kou" is from the Japanese word, Koutei (皇帝 ), which literally means "emperor".

Same goes to Suicune (Suikun), as Sui, means water, and Kun comes from "kunshu" (君主 ), "lord" in Japanese.

For Entei, it's En (as in fire=ka"en"), and "Tei"ou (帝王 ), which also means emperor.
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Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, and look for Pokemon. It gives you the name-meanings for all the Pokemon so far. (not counting Diamond/Pearl)
It's quite usefull for looking up almost anything.
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Just to let you know, a couple of those are wrong.
www.pokemondungeon.com/ 's Pokedex shows the correct name meanings.
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lol...
XD

Honestly... Define "correct".
Did the owner of this website walk up to the name creators of the english games and ask?

No.

Just... No.

By the way. Some pokémon names are simply the Japanese name with minor variations. For example:

Nidoking is derived from Nidokingu

Nido is a japanese word meaning "two times" or "two degrees" What does this mean? Well if you connect the fact that there are TWO species of Nidos, (One species for each gender) you get your doubling right there.

Kingu is a japanese word for... You guessed it: King

Nidoqueen is derived from Nidokuin

The prefix is the same in this case.

Kuino comes from kui-n which means: Queen

And to kill off the "omg wut about teh "rino" part in Nidorino, its sposed to be leik rhino!11!oneeleventyfirstbirthday" I have researched that.
No. All Nidos retain their names from japanese. Rhinocerous isn't even close.
Rhinocerous in japanese is "sai".

Rino and Rina are simply masculine and feminine suffixes.

The suffix "ran" in Nidoran is a syllable in japanese words to refer to eggs in some manner. Perhaps "from egg" or even young. Tying in the fact that they are young, it works well.

Didn't see THAT in the above link... =/

So:

Nidoran ♀ - nido
Nidorina – nido + “a” to distinguish femininity
Nidoqueen – nido + queen
Nidoran ♂ - nido
Nidorino – nido + “o” to distinguish masculinity
Nidoking – nido + king
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Vibrava vibrate + ???
well on this name lava is a type of baby insect so hace /ava
It's "larva", not "lava". Hence "Larvitar".
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i though feebas came from feebel

edit: oh it must have changed while i was posting
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To fill in the missing space, the dos for Ariados can refer to the two antennae sticking out of its abdomen, since dos is the Spanish word for two.

Anorith is a tricky one, and you have to know about prehistoric animals to get the reference. Anorith actually based on a type of ancient invertebrate known as Anomalocaris. You can look at this picture to see the resemblance: http://nicholnl.wcp.muohio.edu/NaturalSystems/BurgessShale/Anomalocaris.jpg

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Graveler -Gravel+Monster
Haunter - Haunt + Monster
Chansey - Chance + Lucky
Azumarill - Azul (Spanish for Blue + rill + mar (Spanish for "sea")
Wooper - Woop + Monster
Larvitar – larva + monitar (Lizard)
Tyranitar – pupa + monitar
Tyranitar – tyrant + monitar
Azurill – Azul (Spanish Blue) + rill

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umm... Azumarill= Azur (spanish for blue, which in this case is refering to water) + marill (basic pokemon name)

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Actually If your refering to water then its Agua and thats how it's spelled Aqua is just a derivation from ''Agua'' and there no such word ''Azur'' just to get things straight

Blue in Spanish is Azul
Water in Spanish is Agua

Got it good I should know I'm Spanish :/

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This is from Wikipedia's article about Gyarados:

...Gyarados's name may be derived from a combination of 虐殺 gyakusatsu massacre/slaughter, and 逆境 gyakkyō, hardship/adversity. Both words relate to the creature's violent nature and the hardship it experienced before evolving. The dos (Spanish) may just indicate that it's the second in its evolutionary line...
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