Avatar Banshee Name Generator

In James Cameron's Avatar, a banshee is what the Na'vi call an ikran: the four-winged flyer that a young Omatikaya climbs the Hallelujah Mountains to bond with during the Iknimaya rite. The ikran chooses the rider as much as the rider chooses it, the bond (tsaheylu) lasts for life, and the rider gives the animal its name. Canon gives only a couple of examples: Neytiri's ikran is Seze, which is also the Na'vi word for a blue flower, and Jake Sully's is informally called Bob, a reminder that a human-raised rider might pick something plain.

Because Na'vi is a real constructed language (built by linguist Paul Frommer), an ikran name sounds right when it obeys the same rules as a person's name. Use only Na'vi sounds: the ejectives px, tx and kx, the glottal stop written as an apostrophe, the vowels ä and ì, clusters like ts, ng and rr, and no b, d, g or j. Most fan names are built from vocabulary that suits a flyer: taw (sky), hufwe (wind), tsawke (sun), txep (fire), sanhì (star), tsyal (wing), kxetse (tail), win (fast), txur (strong), ean (blue), tun (red). Tawtsyal, Hufwenari and Txurtsyal all read as plausible Na'vi.

The list mixes meaningful compounds, coined names that follow the phonology, and a few English call-names for human or avatar riders.