I didn’t want to invent new names for domestic animals

[CrimsonGenius]

So I went the Latin route

horse = equus.

 

[LesserSarcasm]

Apply some transposition for uniqueness equus become suequ or queus lets go betting on suequ racing

 

[CrimsonGenius]

Apply some transposition for uniqueness equus become suequ or queus lets go betting on suequ racing

Huh… interesting. Okay

 

[TremendousHuman]

Why not just call them "horse" etc? Your characters probably speak ligua franca anyway (to the readers)

 

[GlassRose]

So just don't. Pretend it makes sense that this completely other world has equivalent animals to ours, and then just treat them as normal. When reading, it can get hard to track the names of different animals, especially when you just take an earth animal and change the name. Like, if you're going to use the Earth animal, just use the Earth animal! If you're writing the story in English, you don't have to change the names of the animals to whatever they would be called in the language of the world, you're not writing the story in that language.

If you want the animals of your world to sound unique, then make them actually unique. Not just an Earth animal, not just an Earth animal but with some differences, no, invent truly new species and ecosystems and systems of domestication and kingdoms and make them make sense.

Or just say, that's too much effort, and using Earth animals falls under what everyone is used to in a story and thus does not harm suspension of disbelief, so who cares!

 

[CrimsonGenius]

The gang will be traveling to a different world where elves, bird people, and etc live.

So just don't. Pretend it makes sense that this completely other world has equivalent animals to ours, and then just treat them as normal. When reading, it can get hard to track the names of different animals, especially when you just take an earth animal and change the name. Like, if you're going to use the Earth animal, just use the Earth animal! If you're writing the story in English, you don't have to change the names of the animals to whatever they would be called in the language of the world, you're not writing the story in that language.

If you want the animals of your world to sound unique, then make them actually unique. Not just an Earth animal, not just an Earth animal but with some differences, no, invent truly new species and ecosystems and systems of domestication and kingdoms and make them make sense.

Or just say, that's too much effort, and using Earth animals falls under what everyone is used to in a story and thus does not harm suspension of disbelief, so who cares!

 

[BearlyAlive]

Suspension of belief. Or just drop a line where the elven horses have a different name, but they quack like a horse and fly like a horse, so the party just automatically thinks of them as horses