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Astro Cross: Flashback 1942 (was naming alien ships)
 
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Hmm.

Well, we know that whatever language you're dealing with likes its gutteral sounds - so let's try deriving a root or two.

The recurrance of 'logg', 'ogg' or '-gg' in two of the names for related craft suggests that it's either an ending like the English '-er', turning the verb 'klo-' or 'chulo-' into a noun, or a word in its own right connected to what they are - 'mecha' or 'fighter', probably.

What I'd do would be go with the latter - a fighter is a 'logg' and another word for the subrole of a 'klogg' gets abbreviated as 'k'. I like 'boloss', myself - if only because breaking it down as 'bo-', attack, and 'loss', shuttle, means that an 'attack fighter' would be a Blogg.

Let's see... out of a hat, 'pachh' for 'ship', applying to anything with a permanently-aboard crew and capable of interstellar flight. Historically, 'destroyer' derives from 'torpedo boat destroyer', so if 'k' - 'kral'? - has something to do with killing small things or escorting then the role would be 'kralpachh', 'antifighter ship'. Alternately, a vessel of the same weight bracket designed to hunt larger prey would be a 'bopachh'. A cruiser is a longer-ranged, more independent type - if 'chu' means something suitably generic like 'war' or 'combat' then a cruiser, the default generic warship, would be a 'chupachh'.

For the battleship... Actually, I like 'chuleginn', which'd probably render out as 'war beast' or 'war titan'.

Assuming that a mecha shuttle is basically a drop ship... Let's say that 'zeg' or 'zerag' means something like 'parasite', so a 'zegloss' would be a shuttle that carries parasites, and a 'zegpachh' the equivalent warship. A drydog or mothership could easily be a 'zeraginn', a 'parasite titan'.

This also implies that, whoever these people are, their carriers tend to be smaller than their battleships - which was how it worked on Earth until the advent of the supercarrier.
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