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Querl Dox- Flatulent mindworm

Nura Nal- Bulbous Empticous Boddacious

Brin Londo- He who devours he who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it.

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"Brin" is a form of "Bryn", which means "mound, hill" in Welsh.

"Condo," interestingly enough, could be a simplified form on "Cionaodh", which is a variation of "Cinaed"= "born of fire" in Gaelic. "Kenneth" is the angelicized form of Cinaed.

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Pol - Paul = humble or small.

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Dag="day" (Old Norse).

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"Salu" could be short for "salutation", or greetings. "Digby" is an actual surname derived from the Middle English word for "dike".
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"Salu" is actually Latin for "greetings".

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I always assumed "Rokk" was meant to invoke "Rock Hudson".
Me, too. Or "Rick" perhaps. (Which means that "flaccid cumquat" could apply to . . . well, never mind. )

Though, as I think about it, I really like Rokk=Peter. After all, Cos was the "rock" of the Legion.

Thou art Rokk and upon this Rokk I shall build my Legion. [Smile]

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And I'm amazed you didn't mention that "Zoe" means "life"

Took it for granted that I did [Razz]

Her brother Thanot's name is similar to Thanos, which is Greek for "Noble". Zoe is Greek, too.

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Thanatos is the Greek personification of death.

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I always wondered if the original plan was to make Zoe's brother a villain, her name meaning "life" and his meaning "death".

I still maintain that it would have been cool if the Reboot LSV had been made up of siblings of the legionnaires. Mekt, Jancel, Thanatos. Reboot Pol Krinn was pretty much an empty slate, too. Maybe he was jealous of Cosmic Boy? Maybe he had a drug problem? Didn't Reep have a brother with issues?

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Tenz had a jealous brother too! A villain that eats anything, that's what we need!

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Querl is similar to query and querulous. Inquisitive and complaining, that's Brainy!

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Gim is similar to Jim, short for James, which I just found out means supplanter.

Luornu is close to Lorna, which means crowned with Laurel.

Charles means free man.

Andrew means courageous. I like it.

Val means power.

Tenzil is similar to Denzel which means wild one.

Lar is similar to Lars, which is derived from Lawrence, a family name of mine. It also means laurel-crowned.

Jeckie is similar to Jennie, short for Jennifer which means white wave. Could pertain to her hairdo.

Also similar to Jackie, short for Jacqueline, meaning to protect, which is similar to Projectra so we've come full circle.

Tasmia is similar to Tamara, meaning palm tree.

Thomas means a twin. Never knew that. My twin's middle name. What a coincidence.

Kal could be short for Kaleb, meaning faithful or bold.

Kara means sweet melody.

Jo was obviously derived from Jonah, meaning dove. Ironic. He seems more like a hawk to me.

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Nolan means well known.

Allon is close to Allen, meaning handsome.

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Luornu is close to Lorna, which means crowned with Laurel.

"Luo" is a Chinese surname, apparently meaning "trap", "net", "gather". Can't find anything meaningful for "Rnu", but since it evokes "run", possibly something like "Running gatherer"?

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Tasmia is similar to Tamara, meaning palm tree.

I'd more readily associate it with Tasmin, apparently a short form of Thomasina (which is, obviously, the feminine version of Thomas which, as you covered, means "twin").

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Kal could be short for Kaleb, meaning faithful or bold.

"Calel" appears to be a Jewish name (Calel Perechodnik predates Superman), but I'm having trouble finding a definition.

Google Translate appears to suggest that "Kal" means "Light" in Hebrew, and "-El" is a historical suffix relating to God, so "Light of God"?!

In-continuity, however, "Kal-El" means (or at least has meant) "Star Child".

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