So, I'm going to reply by the order I read so it might sound weird.
@listenforthelove oh, if it's youmin that makes more sense... also (I don't know if there's anyone who speaks Chinese here, if you do excuse my very limited knowledge, American schools are not very good at teaching languages) for youming the only word *I* know in Chinese that would fit would be 有名, which is famous. And if Sasori means scorpion, than he's like Nezumi yay my theory was saved
I know that they didn't rename the city because it was easier, but rebuilding the city in general is a hard thing so I don't think that renaming the city is that much of an effort in comparison...
i had a weird dream with elephants in cages and they had huge eyes they were pitch black and it wasn't cute it was terrifying also it was somehow within ffx don't question my dreamsAnyway, I said it before and I'll say it again- my personal headcanon is that Forest People didn't have names at all.
@Vox you said on tumblr that you had Persian accent right (tumblr is blocked on school wifi and I didn't have time to log in at home yet sorry for not replying) does that mean that you speak Farsi? 'cause that would make it easier for me to explain how Jericho doesn't sound cool at all in my opinion, it's actually a pretty ugly name for listeners that don't have the same sounds as Semitic and Indo-Eurpoean languages have. German is Indo-European too, so @Ahiku and @lawlya and whoever else is from Germany should be able to understand it... Anyway the pronunciation is 'Yeri
cho', the ch being that throaty sound that I can't explain with English letters, it's like h I guess but not really? German has some type of that, too. It sounds like something is stuck in your throat.
Yes that was talented attempt to explain language. I'll look into the origin of the name some more...
EDIT: Yericho comes from the word 'Yareach' in Hebrew (ירח) which means moon. It was called that because the people who lived there worshiped the good of the moon in the Canaanite religion. I doubt that the author of that fic went that far to research this, though ^^