Name Origin of “Uléqua”

I don’t know if authors ever reveal how they came up with a fantasy-esque name. But I hope you find this interesting and maybe, maybe even helpful for your own writing 🙂

Here’s how I came up with “Uléqua” in The Puppeteer Series.

From “Europe”. Since the country is given an overall England / European feel, I wanted the name to come from “Europe.” So…

Europe

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Europa

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Eurasia

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Eurasia and Europa = Orpa

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Added a “que” at the end because I wanted to.

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Orpaque (I didn’t like it still because it sounded like “opaque”)

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Orupaq

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Orapqu (Now it just sounds silly )

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Bringing back the “eu” and add an “l” because I wanted to.

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Leuqa

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Uleqa

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Finally, add some fancy stuff and now we have Uléqua.