Naming roots

Astrological

• Acrux
• Ruchbah
• Boury
• Acrab
• Acuben - star system
• Achermar (mispelt from Achernar) part of binary star system: Alpha Eridani
• Zubenelgenubi - double star, also known as Alpha Librae
• Abetti - Lunar crater, also named after an italian astronomer.
• Ophiuchi -large constellation in the celestial equator, greek for serpent-bearer.
• Rasalhague - binary star and brightest star in the Ophiuchus system, also goes by Alpha Ophiuchi
• Venaticorum
• Sol - latin for Star, name of solar system, also the name of the Roman god and Norse goddess of the sun-like Apollo.
• Antares (star in the constellation of Scorpius)
• Orionis - identified as stars being a part of the Orion constellation
• Serpentis- constellation.

Asteroids

• Mrkos- Czech astronomer, discovered asteroids.
• Aksnes
• Sirrah
• Alschmitt - named after french astronomer, Alfred Schmitt
• Arlon- named after asteroid 1717 Arlon, but also an area in Belgium
• Abanderada - 1581 Abanderada
• Aegle - named after 96 Aegle, also the name of numerous characters in Greek mythology
• Anza - multiple meanings, such as asteroid 2061 Anza
• Tolosa- named after asteroid 138 Tolosa found within the asteroid belt
• Dubiago
• Bohrmann
• Binzel
• Finsen
• Hynek
• Aho
• Bulgakov-3469 Bulgakov an asteroid named after Nicholai Bulgakov, also a Russian surname
• Dora, named after 668 Dora, main belt asteroid
• Aiguillon - named after 1918 Aiguillon, a main-belt asteroid
• Alfven - 1778 Alfvén, an asteroid discovered in 1960, named after Hannes Alfvén, also named after magnetohydrodynamic wave
• Alvarez - named after asteroid, 3581 Alvarez
• Borngen -
• Sibelius - named after asteroid
• Potomac - named after 1345 Potomac, an asteroid
• Butchwald - slight variation of the name of a main-belt asteroid 3209 Buchwald
• Mironov - named after the asteroid, 3624 Mironov, which was named after the actor, Andrei Mironov.
• Pawona - named after asteroid in the asteroid belt, 1152 Pawona
• Dwornik- named after 2048 Dwornik
• Welch - named after the asteroid, 2405 Welch
• Fanale
• Abante - 3480 Abante, main belt asteroid
• Queteleta, named after 1239 Queteleta, a non-family main belt asteroid
• Christophe - named after 1698 Christophe, an asteroid
• Aoluta- named after 2341 Aoluta, an asteroid
• Dobrovoleva - named after 3013 Dobrovoleva, asteroid between mars and Jupitar and Mars

Asteroids discovered by Nikolai Chernykh

• Churyumov
• Duboshin

Stars

• Rastaban
• Sillanpaa
• Nashira
• Sheratan (AKA Beta Arietis) star system and second brightest star in the Aries constellation
• Scheat - giant red star, also known as Beta Pegasi
• Vindemiatrix - (Epsilon Virginis), star in Virgo constellation
• Seginus, a binary star within the Boötes the herdsman constellation.

Planets and minor planets

• Duncombe - minor planet 3368 Duncombe, also a surname
• Aposhanskij minor planet named 3190 Aposhanskij, also named after Soviet Poet and journalist
• Ehrsson - minor planet named 2274 Ehrsson, named after a friend of discoverer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist
• Adriana

Animals

• Pheasant
• Mockingbird
• Nightingale
• Wallaby
• Alligator
• Rabbit
• Pigeon
• Magpie
• Tamarin
• Coyote - also named after beast, but also a trickster spirit in many indigenous cultures of North America
• Rabbit
• Rat

Named after Locations

• "Sofievka".
• Rienna - locationFrench
• Xinjiang - a country in China
• Anum - a location in Ghana
• Calvinia - place in southern Africa
• Chimay- location in Belgium
• Altaj was a lemma (root word) for Altay, also known as the golden mountain? the name of a mountain range in Czech between Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan
• Agematsu - place in Japan
• Fuji - multiple meanings
• Hungerford - location in England
• Alhambra

Greek Mythology

Gods/Goddesses

• Persephone
• The Merovingian (AKA Hades)
• Dionysius
• Ananke - goddess of Compulsion (one of the primordial gods)
• Aristaeus - minor greek god who discovered including bee-keeping
• Ceres - Roman goddess of Agriculture, also name of dwarf planet/large asteroid
• Ate - Greek goddess of ruin, folly, and delusion
• Eos - goddess of Dawn
• Pax - Roman Goddess of Peace, also the name of an asteroid
• Aristaeus
• Thekla

Others

• Endymion - ancient greek shepherd from ancient greek myth
• Tisiphone
• Sisyphus
• Cebriones - ancient character in Ancient greek myth, (could also be a giant?)
• Medea - character in Jason and the golden fleece
• Enceladus - a Gigantes, son of Uranus and Gaia.
• Coroebus - name of two distinct characters.
• Arachne - a female character from ancient Greek myth, cursed to become a spider (a male character in one of Mandrarin's missions)
• Amalthea - foster-mother of Zeus in Greek mythology, also an asteroid, as well as a moon of Jupiter
• Clotho - one of the three fates or Moirai
• Polyxena - Trojan Princess during the Trojan War.

Nymphs

• Calypso- a nymph in greek mythology, also named after a moon of Saturn
• Aegle - a nymph
• ‎Dynamene- named after a sea nymph
• Amphitrite - named after a sea nymph who was also Poisodon's wife.
• Callisto - one of Artemis' huntress companions, a nymph, also a moon of Jupiter
• Arne- character from greek mythology and 959 Arne was a minor planet.

Irish Mythology

• Aine
• Eri

Other Mythology

• Anahit - Armenian goddess of fertility, healing wisdom and water.
• Mothman - while the name is remaniscent of the mythical creature, his name is mostly based on the fact that he supplies silk.
• Darago - war deity, Bagobo god of warriors
• Sylphia - sylphs was a spirit of air
• Zu - lesser Akkadian god
• Abnoba - Gaulish goddess as well as a mountain.
• Turso- based Ike-Turso (Finnish for Eternal Turso), a malevolent sea monster

Ancient Greeks

• Aristophanes - ancient Greek comic playwright or comedy-writer
• Aeschylus

Computer programming and terminology

• Fread
• Blog
• Firewall
• Ymodem - file transfer protocol
• Buffer
• Extra - name of a variety of computing terms
• Loti - internet slang for "Laughing On The Inside"
• Downlink
• Ascii - computer character code, also the name of a Japanese computer magazine.

Persian related terms

• Sarv
• Tirbodh
• Ramin

Angelic/ demons

• Jezebeth
• Zagam
• Malphas

Named after people

• Alytheia
• Demonax
• Demetrius?
• Diodorus
• Agassiz
• Aplidell (A.P. Liddell) - writer
• Alois
• Sillanpaa - surname of a famous Finnish writer, Frans Eemil Sillanpää.
• Spellman -surname
• Hunter Ellis - American military veteran and television personality
• Blechschidt - named after German author and professor E. BLECHSCHMIDT, specializing in embryology
• Vandenburg - surname which is a variation of Dutch or Finnish, means "from the mountain"
• Zverev - Russian masculine surname
• Tjarden - character from "All Quiet on the Western Front"
• Oyler

Terms in other language

• Long -Chinese word for dragon
• Yong - multiple meanings
• Concha - translation for shell in portuguese and spanish language

Biblical

• Sheba - ancient kingdom in the old testament and Quran
• Bilkis - known as first ad last name, also an alternative name for the Queen of Sheba.
• Hinnom - another word for Gehenna

Science

• Microcoulomb - a measurement that is part of a system of units.

Multiple meanings

• Heron - waddling birds, Hero of Alexandria (mathematician and engineer) etc.,
• Kaplan - surname and location
• Tarka
• Astronomia - Ancient Greek poem, also name of 1154 Astronomia, an asteroid
• Sol

Others

• Caupolican
• Bessel
• Pixie Licious
• Brouwer- Flemish and Dutch surname. Translated as "Beer Brewer"
• Fyror - number four in Norse
• Chilton - English surname
• Gat Boy
• Palma
• Prudentia -Roman goddess of Prudence, also named after one of the virtues.
• Dobra
• Ether
• Ezell
• Esperanto- name of a language
• Paris - multiple meanings
• Bannock

To be sorted

• Tanesha Salcedo
• Taylot Yamin
• Tracie Berman
• Alysha Irmen
• Cole Allemeier
• Moises Craven
• Ronnie Trowe
• Russette Franguiadakis
• Sharmaine Tarn
• Alphonse
• Accoustic
• Al Kissel
• Alvin Fetris
• Bulgey
• Camillo
• Christeen Sebold

Enoch Horner

• Jeffrey Seekins
• Miguel Zappa
• Salcedo
• Shaquana Hassam
• Tad Zappa
• Tina Van Meer
• Ani

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• Chant
• Chong
• Dallas Vandenberg
• Debroah Pryes
• Earnest Valvo
• Elly

Firden Heron Imelda Kroller Kang Luis Anselm Mallard Mole Monroe Vandenberg Monty Joubert Salcedo - Spanish toponymic surname

• Fabre

• Shura - method of decision making in Arabic cultures

• Apollo - Greek God of the music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment, and the sun