View source for Latin Names for Yih

Since the yinrih's star has been given a Latin name (Focus), here are a few candidates for a Latin name for Yih.

Yih /jIh/ or /jI/ (like &quot;yip&quot; without the p) comes from the Commonthorat word &lt;sfqg&gt; /yip, short high strong whine, huff, short low weak growl/. The word refers to earth or soil, but also to the planet Yih itself, meaning &lt;sfqg&gt; is very close semantically to English Earth and Latin Terra.

Some possible candidates are:

Borrowing the English word Yih, which would look like Iĭha, Iĭhia, or even Iĭa if we want to lean into Ecclesiastical Latin's ambiguous use of H when borrowing Hebrew words (Eva/Heva, Anna/Hanna). A possible adjectival form could be Iĭhensis, Iĭhanus/a/um, or Iĭhicus/a/um.

Using a somewhat less common synonym for Earth, like Tellus or Gaea, which is meant to allude to Yih's status as the only other life-bearing planet in the galaxy.

Using the yinrih's scientific classification, yielding Vulpitheca.

More poetic options could reference Yih's ring, with Terra Anulata (ringed Earth) rolling off the tongue nicely.

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Somewhat related: The vast majority of yinrih don't think of themselves as being *from* yih, just like how most humans don't think of themselves as being *from* Africa. This makes the word &quot;yinrih&quot;, which refers to Yih, somewhat controversial among monkey foxes. Residents of Yih may regard it as watering down their unique identity by lumping all cynoids together under a label they regard as their own. Non residents of Yih, especially those who chafe under AW hegemony, see it as further chaining them to Yih.


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