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Is it more usual to say essenya ná, "my name is", estan imne, "I name myself" (I couldn't find a verb for "call" in this sense), or nán, "I am"? All of these are valid in English, of course, although they are used in different ways (particularly "I name myself" carries a connotation that it is a deliberate act with some specific meaning to the name, and "I call myself" sounds like something temporary, or dissembling, not wanting to tell a real name), so I wonder if these wordings are all equal in Elvish, or how they stand in relation to each other if not.