Looking to understand a fantasy name


This is related to Beyblade, regarding a team exclusive to a game that didn't
get translated to English. Each blader has their own holy beast to command and
I'm not getting the name of one of them.

  * The winged horse beast is called ペガシオン; Pegacion, with the usual "-us" ending replaced with "-ion"
  * The kitsune beast is called ウルペース; Vulpes, just the Latin word for "fox".
  * The boar beast is called アグリオス; Agrios. I presume it's named after Circe's son from Greek mythology, but in any case I've come across another franchise in which a boar was called Agrios, so I reckon this romanization is correct.

The fourth one is グランクローネ, a beast based on the tripedal crow, probably
specifically Yatagarasu. Now, for my questions:

  * グラン I understand as "grand" with a French pronunciation. I've on occasion seen fantasy names that use グラン instead of グランド and I'm curious how to understand this. Are グラン and グランド interchangeable from a Japanese perspective or are there situations where one is prefered over the other (aside from set terms like グランプリ)? And is グラン necessarily pronounced the French way? Should I look at クローネ as French just because I do グラン?
  * Assuming クローネ is the English word "crow" with "ne" slapped to the end, what is "ne"? With Pegacion up above, I know the "-t/cion" ending from words such as "television" or "vacation". But I have no such familiarity with "ne". There is an Egyptian character in the franchise named Cairona, which is "Cairo" + "na", which seems a comparable name construction to "Crow" + "ne", but it still leaves me confused what these extra letters at the end are supposed to evoke. 

Thanks in advance.




・ I could not find any specific data on this, but if I would guess, I'd say
that is natural, maybe almost automatic, that when the speaker are trying to
associate with English culture or something imagined as being of English
origin the speaker would use グランド, and the same should occur with the French
グラン. As グランプリ is of French origin the "french" way is emulated. グランド キャニオン
comes from English and Mexico's リオ・グランデ川 or Brazil's リオ・グランデ・ド・スル州 would be
examples of one more variety. I'd guess that the speaker noticing (or at least
imagining) the culture he/she is referring to, he/she chooses from
グラン、グランド、グランデ。

・ I do not believe a author will use the words indistinctly. I believe that if
a author of a novel, game, manga or whatever chooses some word, he wants to
say something through it. So I'll list the possibilities I've come up with, on
suffix 'ne'

  1. You talked about the egyptian character, I don't know about the egyptian language, but the Egypt talked greek for a long time in ancient history (before turning to Arabic), and in greek there is a class of words that in the accusative case ends with "na"/"ne". This usually turns the word a direct object of a clause. And in ancient greek Cairo could be χαίρω, that is the verb rejoice, joy, to be glad. And can also be used as a greeting "hello", "bye" (the greeting remains in modern greek). [It doesn't help to understand the クローネ, but maybe helps to understand the CAIRONA in a different way?] 

クロー indeed seems to be "Crow".

  2. The scientific name for the crow is "corvus corone" but the katakana doesn't sounds to fit well, because クローネ streches.

  3. So if we take the Italian as @kimi tanaka suggested, Crow = Corvo and the 'ne' would be the plural indicating suffix. But the italian for Crows isn't 'corvone', it's 'corvi'. Even if it were Corvone the katakana would not become クローネ. 

  4. Do you think The English 'crone' meaning old fit well? Because if it does, we solve the meaning, but the katakana would not be extended クロ(ー)ネ. 

  5. As you've already noted the Grand is in the french pronounce, and probably this is a clue. Because the french for Crow is "corbeau", but the french for "crown" is "couronne".

I don't know. Since you seems to be way more acquainted with the game I think
that just you can decide about what makes more sense. Although I've got
excited about it.

If I would guess, I'd be with number 5. Because it seems to solve the
streching, and have no problems with the meaning. In fact, maybe the author
was thinking on a puzzle on Grand Crow and Grande Couronne. A big crow with a
big crown.

