How did Monomi Park come to the name Monomi Park?

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How did Monomi Park come to the name Monomi Park?

Postby Kataztrophie » Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:22 pm

When I search "monomi" on google, all I get is Monomi Park and apparently a character from Danganronpa. Google translating the kanji for the name of this character's name (モノミ) just results in "monomi".

So, how was this name decided on? Is there a reference I'm missing?
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Re: How did Monomi Park come to the name Monomi Park?

Postby Frigidus » Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:15 am

From Spiral Knights, I guess. The stone puppy in the south west corner of the Haven Town Square is named 'Monomi'.
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Re: How did Monomi Park come to the name Monomi Park?

Postby akkamaddi » Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:44 am

Kataztrophie wrote: Google translating the kanji for the name of this character's name (モノミ) just results in "monomi".


My Japanese is pretty atrophied, but *if* the name is Japanese, we would have to see it written in Kanji to know what "monomi" really means. Or, Monomi Park would have to tell us. :-)

モノミis katakana, which is a phonetic syllabary, not Chinese Kanji. It is literally sounding out /mo-no-mi/.

"Mono" is used as a suffix for "physical thing/item". Taberu and nomu are "to eat/eating" and "to drink/drinking", and tabemono and nomimono are "food" and "drinks". Tack it onto the verb "to sell", and you get "merchandise".

If my (poor) memory is right, "monomi" is used as just "a thing", possibly as "a piece of that" or "one of those". However, "mi" can be a few other kanji, so it might have a specific meaning.
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