Somoñi naming customs

Somoñi nomad names differ between men and women, a woman will have a first and last name while a man while have a first, middle and last name. A woman takes on her mother's family name as her last name while the man takes the mother's family name as his middle name and his father's as his last. The reasons for this are explained below.

-Male family names
Men family names stem from the name of their male line ancestor, mostly a well known ancestor or one worthy of remembering. The said ancestor's name has om we om before it. om we om is Somi for 'from blood of'

e.g.

Man with mother from the Ċarshipa family and father from the Alþashi family:  Araċ Ċarshipajor om we om Alþashi 

-Female family names
The Sumric people have an incredible sense of smell which far exceeds that of any other human. They use their heightened smell to help detect prey when hunting. This comes in handy mostly when hunting over large distances or wide open areas where smells can travel easier in the wind. Due to this great smell they find perfumes and potions very potent and so use them scarcely, mostly for giving a certain sentiment object a scent when can be sniffed for comfort. For example a widow may take a lock of her late husband's hair and anoint it with a scent which she can smell to bring comfort to her grief. A young single woman will often let any potential suitors in the area know she is available by washing her hair with juices extracted from the arci plant (arci is Somoñi for 'tempter'). This gives the woman's hair a very distinct scent which lets any men around know she is available to court. Each family however will add a unique ingredient so that the women of each family have a their own scent, this is so that men can tell whether a scent belongs to their sister or an unrelated woman nearby. The unique ingredient is passed down mother to daughter and is so strictly followed that you could tell which family a woman belongs to by the scent of her hair, much so that the woman side of a family is referred to by the ingredient they use. For example the family which whose ingredient is the ċ arshipa  flower will be known as the ċ arshipajeji  (-eji being the plural female diminutive suffix) A woman will take the singular form of the family name as her last name and a man will use the singular form (albeit with the masculine diminutive suffix) as his middle name.

e.g

Woman from ċ arshipa  family:  Larësa ċ arshipaje