The Primarchs' Real Names?

[Shotbreak]

I'm wondering if the guys at GW saw an episode of Star Trek and said "There's one of our Primarchs, let's name him after the home planet of those pointy eared dudes who like to split their fingers" Thus Vulkan was born.. :)

[HandOfDorn]

The Primarchs were names by the populations of their home planets, im 100% sure Night Haunter was given that name by the populace after basically becoming the planets law enforcement, no idea why Emp called him Curze though..

 

And on that note of daft names, i mean 'Ferrus Manus'...really?! Anyone who has at the very least heard of the term 'Chemistry' will know what Ferrus means..

 

And 'Angron' just sounds like a very irate robot.

[Walter Payton]

My favourite dodgy pronunciation is Roboute on the Lightning Tower audio book.

I read that his name was mentioned in that story and was immediately curious how it would be pronounced. I really liked the way the narrator did it.

 

How did he do it?

 

I always called him Rob-oot G-weel-ay-man

[HandOfDorn]

I always said 'Row-Boot Gillie-Man'

[Legatus]

How did he do it?

The narrator read it as 'Ro-boo-teh Gill-eh-man'. Though he may have been saying 'gilliman'. And the 'a' in 'Gilleman' was very short, barely pronounced.

[Hialmar]

I thought the way he pronounced it made more sense than how I usually hear it said, which frankly isn't often as people just tend to mumble through it when they say it at all, usually just referring to him as the Ultramarine Primarch as it is easier than trying to guess the pronunciation of a made up word.

[lee265]

I'm wondering if the guys at GW saw an episode of Star Trek and said "There's one of our Primarchs, let's name him after the home planet of those pointy eared dudes who like to split their fingers" Thus Vulkan was born.. :ermm:

Vulcan is the roman god of fire volcanoes and the forge. a blacksmith god if you will.

[captain_shrike]

I pronounce Roboute as Ro-bowt Gwill-ee-man....

 

Ferrus means Iron right? I only got a C in chemistry....

[Artein]

Iron is ferrum (Fe).

[Rider-75]

ferrus manus is basically a dog-latin for "iron hands"

 

the roman/greek-esqueness of the Ultramarines would mean the pronounciation of "Row-boot-eh" has a more Latin-language sound to it than, following the pronounciation of the seperate syllables "Ro", "bou", and "te".

[SeverusDecker]

Actully I think it's more french sounding. "Gool-E-Man" IMO

[Legatus]

In french it would be 'Gill-moh', or possibly 'Gille-moh', I think.

[The Normish]

I've always thought that Rogal Dorn works better in Englsih and Roboute Guilliman works better in French.

Roh-boot Gooui-lee-mann (for the English flair) or Gooui-li-m(French an sound - difficult to write phonetically).

 

Whuile technically, it would be pronouced Gil-ee-mah, I find that the English flair works nicely.

[lee265]

It came to me in a vision the 18 were all steve before emeror bob showed up and renamed them. the reason the other 2 were expunged is they were named george. :lol:

[Hialmar]

When I first saw this thread my initial thought was somebody had discovered that the real cause behind the heresy was the Emperor in a somewhat confused moment and a genetic miscalculation thought all the soon to be Traitor Primarchs were going to be girls. When the Traitor Primarch's discovered their real names were all those of girls, which just mad them furious so the Primarchs orignally named Hortense, Angie, Morticia, Maggie, Felicia, Allie Mae, Penelope, Lori, Korri all got into a snit once they discovered their real names the Emperor had given them and started the revolt.

 

Of course this confused the Loyalist Primarchs who all thought at least they all had names that people could pronounce and were actual real names and not something bizarre like Sanguinius, Leman, Lion, Ferrus, Corax, Jaghatai, Rogal, Vulkan or Roboute which caused them to fight back, thinking the Traitors were just being unreasonably sensitive about the whole thing.

[The Normish]

When I first saw this thread my initial thought was somebody had discovered that the real cause behind the heresy was the Emperor in a somewhat confused moment and a genetic miscalculation thought all the soon to be Traitor Primarchs were going to be girls. When the Traitor Primarch's discovered their real names were all those of girls, which just mad them furious so the Primarchs orignally named Hortense, Angie, Morticia, Maggie, Felicia, Allie Mae, Penelope, Lori, Korri all got into a snit once they discovered their real names the Emperor had given them and started the revolt.

 

Of course this confused the Loyalist Primarchs who all thought at least they all had names that people could pronounce and were actual real names and not something bizarre like Sanguinius, Leman, Lion, Ferrus, Corax, Jaghatai, Rogal, Vulkan or Roboute which caused them to fight back, thinking the Traitors were just being unreasonably sensitive about the whole thing.

That was probably it, actually. I'd hate to have a name like Angron (actually, never mind. It's an awesome name).

[Durfast Spiritwolf]

Lemon was originally called Farley Russ after a well known kiddies biscuit

[Neonkharma]

ferrus manus is basically a dog-latin for "iron hands"

 

the roman/greek-esqueness of the Ultramarines would mean the pronounciation of "Row-boot-eh" has a more Latin-language sound to it than, following the pronounciation of the seperate syllables "Ro", "bou", and "te".

 

First post (but long time lurker) on these boards.

 

I had to say something about this post because when I read the last part of that it made me think of 'Et tu Brute?' because he was stabbed and poisoned by Fulgrim. And it was just the perfect Julius Caesar moment in my mind.

 

Also, taken directly from Lexicanum, Roboute Guilliman (/rɒb'uːteɪ 'gwɪlɪman/5) Garro: Oath of moment (Audio Book) by James Swallow. So I guess that's how it was supposed to be pronounced. I always said it as 'Robut Gilman'. And this leads me to believe that his first name is Robert and therefore, by extention, Bob. The Ultramarines Primarch is named... Bob.

[Vor]

A friend of mine, who has played 40k for about 20 years, went to school with a guy who for years thought Leman Russ was pronounced Lemon Russ.

[Purge The Weak]

The Big E had been steering the course of humanity for aeons before his eventual rise to power, so I imagine with this forsight he could see the names his sons would take on. And yes he probably did intend for chaos to steal his kids, as how else would they grow up properly and gain human characteristics...

[Hrvat]

ferrus manus is basically a dog-latin for "iron hands"

 

the roman/greek-esqueness of the Ultramarines would mean the pronounciation of "Row-boot-eh" has a more Latin-language sound to it than, following the pronounciation of the seperate syllables "Ro", "bou", and "te".

 

 

On the subject of Ferrus.

 

It is actually a clever combination between Ferrum (Iron) and Ferus (Wild). Considering that he was basicaly a man that lived in the wilds and had iron hands.

 

 

Hrvat

[Solid Zaku]

Oy, isn't there an entire THREAD designated for 40k pronunciation? I can't WAIT for Ultramarines to come out. Not only did we get to hear how Macragge was pronounced, but I'm sure that they'll mention the Primarch's blessedly obscure name.

 

The Emperor didn't name his sons. They were named on-planet. Sort of strange that none of them changed their names once they reunited with the Emperor. Seems like it should have happened at least once.

[Hrvat]

Night Hunter was named by the Emperor as Konrad Cruze.

[Legatus]

Which is odd since Guilliman recieved his name from his foster father who had found and raised him. That is somewhat inconsistent. Perhaps when a Primarch had recieved a name on the world he was found he was allowed to keep it. But in case of Night Haunter no one had ever raised and thus named him.

[Rising Chaos]

And on that note of daft names, i mean 'Ferrus Manus'...really?! Anyone who has at the very least heard of the term 'Chemistry' will know what Ferrus means..

ferrus manus is basically a dog-latin for "iron hands"

 

AND WE SHALL NAME THE IRON HANDS PRIMARCH IRON HANDS AND NO ONE WILL NOTICE OUR WITTINESS =D

 

On a more serious note I've always wondered why it seems many of the primarchs were only gifted with a first name, as opposed to the massive number of ones that had full names.

Being a Blood Angels nut I've always wondered if Sanguinius had a last name, but you can also add him to the ranks of Motarion, Angron, Fulgrim, Corax etc. as oppoed to Horus Luprecal, Leman Russ, Lion'El Johnson etc.