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Pokemon Name Meanings

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Dee Trier

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    Actually i doubt my own theory coz the flygon's type are dragon and not bug
     
    Sylphiel

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    • Either Fly(ing) + Dragon or "Dragonfly" could work for Flygon, I think, since while it's not quite a dragonfly, it's based off something that looks like one.

    Another possibility for Vibrava: the exact word "vibrava" seems to be a conjugation (the third person singular indicative, according to what I'm looking at) of the Italian verb "vibrare", which means "to vibrate".
     

    Dee Trier

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    Hey guys. I just think about flygon and here is my new theory
    DragonFLY DraGON
     

    Iron Mankey

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    • "Rayquaza-directly Romanized version of its Japanese name"

    I think there's more:

    Ray= Ray of light or sun, since it lives so high up.
    quaza= Quasar, one of- if not the- most powerful sources of energy known to this universe. Since it is an uber. and all ubers are uber-strong.
     

    Saphy_Chronicler

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    • Impressive list. *gives a thumbs-up*

    My thoughts:

    Mareep - sheep + Mary (playing on the poem "Mary had a little lamb")

    Dunsparce - sparce + dun (dull brown or grey in colour)

    Vibrava - vibrato (high-pitched wavery singing) + brava (feminine variant of "bravo")

    Cacturne - cactus + taciturne (silent, withdrawn)

    Mawile - maw (mouth) + crocodile (drawn from its attack "Fake Tears", otherwise known as crocodile tears)

    I like Iron Mankey's theory on Gyarados's name, by the way! ^_^

    ~ Saphy ~
     

    Fls4eva

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    O...Gosh...I didn't eva expect Pokemon names to haf reasons behind it...It's totally amazing...
     

    figglychu

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    • I know wobbuffet is wobble+buffet(smacked around) and snorunt is snow(it eats snow) and runt. and maybe houndour is hound and dour(a word meaning gloomy and/or grumpy looking) dewgong is named after a similar animal of the same name. and sneasel is sneeze(it lives in cold places) and weasle. please don't criticize if you have heard it before.
     

    kohei

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    • Shadowburn said:
    I guess nobody tried this for raikou. RAI- Of couse thunder (but thats not the whole word!) KOU- Cougar :rambo:
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    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.
     

    Lord Nidokingu

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    • RaikouSpecialLover said:
    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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