Naming Conventions

[LD]

>>ocean, straight, channel, sea, isles/isle, shores, coast, bay, gulf, and cape. Any cool ones I'm missing?


Bight.

Brook
Channel
Pond
Pool
Creek.
Stream
--"Burn" (slang)
Canal
Watercourse
Inlet

Cove.

Lagoon.
Delta. (Sort of)
Billabong
Estuary

Salt Lake
Dead Sea

Channel
FJORD!

Rapids.
Waterfall. "Falls"

Wetland.
Marsh.
Swamp.
Floodplain.

Bog.

Intertidal Zone.
Spray Zone.

Mire.

Reef.
Hydrothermal Vents.

Whirlpool.

Reef.

Aquifer (underground)

Undertow (sort of a term)
Tidal Pool

COLD NORTHERN AREA
Glacier (with Moraines for the more established glaciers)
Icesheet

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And I suppose if you're going to use Spanish, since you're in Central America (Yo espero este traduccio'n es correcto):

Cuenca--- Basin
Fosa--- River Basin
Hoya--- Pit

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Manmade

Dam/Weir
Levee
Dredge
Reservoir
Aqueduct

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And it's "strait", not "straight".

Good luck!

[Superfluous Crow]

... I also like names that have a "rhyme scheme" (I think there is term for this), like Salsurel (pronounces sal-sur-rel), Voy Vasa, or Pel Perdan. ...

I think you are looking for Consonance, Assonance and our good friend Alliteration. But yeah, as you said, those are actually really good tools for making names with a certain strangeness to them.

By the way, Karza-in-Mourning is a great name.

[Llum]

Ah yes, good old Alliteration. Great for making PC/NPC names (ask anyone in the SIG, or look at the PC names. We've got quite a few alliterations)

As for naming things, I always try and get a word to have the right "feel" or sound to it. One trick I found that works really well is to take familiar names/words and start subbing in/out a few letters here and there.

[Nomadic]

Ah yes, good old Alliteration. Great for making PC/NPC names (ask anyone in the SIG, or look at the PC names. We've got quite a few alliterations)

As for naming things, I always try and get a word to have the right "feel" or sound to it. One trick I found that works really well is to take familiar names/words and start subbing in/out a few letters here and there.

Yes I've heard of that trick. Great thing for when you need an NPC name on the fly. Robert Jones is too real world but with a quick chop it can become Reburt Junas or Rabar Jons or any number of other foreign sounding names.

[Kindling]

Brits use "the briny" informally as "the sea," from what I've heard.

We do? Wow, I'm so using that! Thanks :P