What's a good name for cat people that's not total

>>52928652

First off, try to figure out what sort of noises the catfolk make, since that will pepper the word they use to describe themselves. For example, dad and mom are almost universally d-words and m-words in every culture because those are among the first "letters" a baby can make while babbling, and over time adults associated those letters with paternal or maternal figures.

Secondly, you want a name that references something in their collective mythos - nobody calls Humans "apefolk" so why should Catfolk? Whether it's a reference to their mythological genesis or a unique feature or even where they live, it shouldn't just be "we're cats >:3"

>>52928652
Furries.

>>52928715
>dad and mom are almost universally d-words and m-words
Prove this.

>>52928740
>Prove this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/words-mom-dad-similar-languages/409810/

meowmers

>>52928753
Neat. Thanks.

>>52928652
Nekopotamians.

I don't even give a fuck.

>>52928652
Yarn-batters

>>52928652
Kont

Translated from their language it simply means 'Male'. As alot of languages have, incidentally.

>>52928652
Elder Scrolls got it right. Follow their cue.

>>52928715
The common name of a people is not often the name they call themselves

>>52928956
Canines are Kont, felines are Brab.

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Grimalkin?

That's what they used in Ni no Kuni.

>>52928652
Fekir, Felarians, Formosans, Casarans.

>>52928652
Meowsters or Meowstyrians

>>52928652
Nyanyarians

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>>52928652
Furjit.
Purrtril.
Meowths.
Mewmans.
Tailmers.
Rowlars.
Penny Dreadnought.
Fluffermutters.
Mewsovah's Witnesses.
Cataananites.
The French.
Bootles.
Pussifers.
Furgits.
Flaffiners.
Kittermanges.
Mippers.
Kaitens.
Kaits.
Khaits.
Qhats.
Matteners.

>>52930513
>Meowths.

thats copyrighted

>>52928652
Nyankyn

>>52928652
Khajit

Coatliners
Footwarmers
Talking Rugs
Ratcatchers
Fish Snatchers
Layabouts

Kot and Koshka

Male and female Cat person

Koshki for general cats

Just use another language

>>52930513
>the french

>>52929175
Evil... I like it.

>>52930513
That Dovahcat never fails to make me sad.

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>>52931545

I used to find it sad too until I noticed he'd taken an arrow to the knee.

>>52928652
Pawfolk

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>>52931834

What about the pawhites and pawblacks?

>>52932364
They stay on /pol/ with the rest of the garbage.

>>52928740
Madre, padre
Mater, Pater
Mother, father
Hmm maybe the mom part is true

>>52928652
Tac people

>>52929004
Khajit sounds like cat shit to me.

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>>52928652
>Hisspanic

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>>52928715
>it shouldn't just be "we're cats >:3"
Why not?

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>>52930513
>Qhats

Hassati from Dungeon Siege

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>>52930946

What about it?

>>52931705
>siamese wizards
These are clearly Thai cats, not Siamese. When will people stop making this mistake.

>>52932670
Slaadi are French.

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>>52932384
>Not pawl
BAKA desu famalam

>>52928715
>nobody calls Humans "apefolk"
Actually in >muh setting, catpeople do.

It's mutual.

>>52928652
Felenins

The Bastet, hailing from the kingdom of Bubasti.

>>52932832

That's near the slime kingdom of Djelibeybi isn't it?

>>52928740
They are also two of the earliest sounds we're able to make during childhood development, so it makes sense.

We learn to make sounds in a very clear order almost worldwide, with 'D' 'B' or 'P' sounds coming first, and 'R' always coming last.

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>>52928652
Khajit

>>52933174
>and 'R' always coming last.

Or never, in the case of the japanese.

>>52932715
>posting on 4chan when you're still too new to post on 4chan
>elaine_benes_smirking.jpg

>>52933670

I thought it was L they don't have a phonetic analog for?

>>52933532
Go away, forcedelfposter.

>>52928949
I laughed.

>>52932707
Wrong, slaadi are Kekistani.

>>52928652

Just pick some exotic language and google what cats are in it. That's how everyone else does it.

The Mau.

>>52928652
Fluffums
MeowMeows
Yarnscratchers
Sunnappers

>>52928652
"MeowmeowmeowAynRandMeow"

>>52934076

What about the Mau Maus?

>>52934182
I see what you did there!
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>>52928652
Rakasta

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>>52928652

Friends.

>>52933702
(you)

>>52933721

Their version of an r is really an l - basically because the first contact between humans and the japanese involved the dutch, transliteration has always been a bit fucked between japanese and romanji scripts.

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Kzin.

>>52934278
Now there's a name I haven't heard since the late 1980's.

>>52934296
I want to be friends with then but im allergic

>>52928652
Harbl

>>52928940
I like the cut of your gib, sir

>>52928652
Anything that means 'The people' but spoken with a cat mouth. Because everyone calls themselves the people and everyone else [noun]-people or [noun]folk

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In a setting that I made with my first group catfolk were called keddicats and kittycat was used as a slur.
I ditched that setting after I separated from them.

>>52928652
Arbadians
I don't know what it means, just typed the first thing that came to mind.

>>52930664
Dat's right!

>>52928652
Jellicles.

>>52928652
feline furmanoids

>>52935689
>one party member dies
>there are still five party members
Making an Oregon Trail joke when you haven't even played the game...

>>52929004
Yup.
Khajiit just means "Desert-walker" or "one who Deserts" in their language, because that's what they define themselves as.

>>52937444
Best answer right here.

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>>52928652
MFW Nobody suggests "Thunderan."

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Felidar

Kzinti!

Male: Kzin'tosh
Female: Kzinrette
Language: The Hero's Tongue!

>>52928652
tibbit
https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Tibbit_(3.5e_Race)

>>52930513
>Cataananites.
Catnaanites

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>>52928652
Neko.

>>52936164
How did you find out you're allergic to lions?

>>52928652
The Floofbutts

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>>52928652
Mau

It's what they call themselves after all.

>>52929272
I'm fine with that

>>52928652
Katzenmenschen

>>52935652
>between humans and the japanese
Truer words have never been misspoken.

>>52934296
>In Soviet Russian, pussy eats you!

>>52946397
No Anglo will figure out how to pronounce this.

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>>52933964
>chaos
>frogs
Uhhhhh... wait

>>52946479
Combine the sch into a harder hissing sh noise and it's pronounced exactly like it's spelled.

>>52946523
I dunno if you're ignorant about German pronunciation or if you're underestimating the lack of linguistic sensitivity of the average native speaker of English, but you're wrong. And <sh> and <sch> both represent the exact same sound: [ʃ]

>>52928715
>humans are apes
Maybe you are you baboon.

>>52946560
Tailless primate. What else would you call it?

>>52928715
>elves, dragons, and mermaids don't call Humans "apefolk", so it's unrealistic that humans would call cat people catfolk.
You raise a very pointless point.

>>52933964
...
I-is Kek a Slaadi Lord?

>>52928715
The word human is functionally "apefolk" since the word's etymology starts at homo which is derivative of hominid

It's just a long winded form to essentially say folk (or more intelligent lifeform) similar to ape

>>52946596
Hominid you idiot

>>52946780
Homo- means same or similar, with the implication being human because it's a name we gave ourselves.

A non-human race would not call us homo-.

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>>52946741
>The Latin word homo comes from hominid and not vice versa

>>52946823
I'm glad you said it.

>Latin homo is derived from an Indo-European root dʰǵʰm- "earth", as it were "earthling".
If humans are the dominant species on your planet and your planet is called earth, it makes sense

>>52928652
elders scrolls names fors khajits

>>52928740
妈妈 and 爸爸 and they're not even proto-indo-european