MeaningOriginDescriptionWorld TreeNorseCorrupt guardian of dark forestsA dragon would sayTorskhernnelkliterally many · territory · forestchromatic dialectWhite Chromatic Dragon
Name: Yuki
MeaningOriginDescriptionSnowJapaneseSimple yet elegant name for a white dragonA dragon would sayFoshliterally snowchromatic dialectCopper Metallic Dragon
Name: Yorith
MeaningOriginDescriptionAncient SmithFantasyReferences metalworkingEtymologyCoined name; no language supplies either element, and the -ith ending is decorative.Say itYOR-ithA generic smith name; the Anatolian teams apply it to the oldest of the copper-pot lairs, whose vessels predate any coin found with them.A dragon would sayTherskrev-orliterally ancient · make · -ermetallic dialectCopper Metallic Dragon
Name: Yrix
MeaningOriginDescriptionYear CounterFantasyAge referenceEtymologyCoined name; no language supplies any element, and the -ix ending is decorative.Say itEER-iksA generic age name; the station uses it for the growth rings counted on a shed scale, one per year, which is how the lore's lifespan is estimated.A dragon would sayThrelshenliterally season · knowmetallic dialectCopper Metallic Dragon
Name: Yorix
MeaningOriginDescriptionYear KeeperFantasyTime referenceEtymologyCoined name; a variant of Yrix with a decorative -ix; the keeper of the gloss is not in the parts.Say itYOR-iksA generic age name; the station has no adult it uses it for that Yrix does not cover.A dragon would sayThrelsherth-orliterally season · defend · -ermetallic dialectFaerie Dragon
Name: Yosei
MeaningOriginDescriptionBewitching SpiritJapaneseThe Japanese word for a fairyEtymologyJapanese yōsei (妖精, "fairy"), from yō (妖, "bewitching, uncanny") + sei (精, "spirit, essence").Say itYOH-sayThe Yakushima cedar forest holds the only recorded East Asian population, and the local word for what the survey found there was already this one.A dragon would sayVrekhnevliterally magic · spiritcore DraconicFire Dragon
Name: Yamata
MeaningOriginDescriptionEight-ForkedJapaneseMulti-headed dragon with divine fireEtymologyJapanese yamata (八岐, "eight-forked"), from Yamata no Orochi, the eight-forked serpent; "mountain" confuses it with yama (山).Say ityah-MAH-tahEight forks is the Japanese survey's reading of an animal seen from above with wings, tail and limbs spread on the lava.A dragon would sayYemaaɾaby soundcore DraconicWater Dragon
Name: Yemoja
MeaningOriginDescriptionMother of WatersYorubaProtective mother of all watersEtymologyYoruba Yemọja, contracted from Yèyé ọmọ ẹja ("mother whose children are fish").Say ityeh-MOH-jahYemoja's children are the fish; an adult keeps the cleaner fish and pilot species that share its lair alive, and eats most of the rest.A dragon would sayShelbrek-orliterally water · hatch · -ercore DraconicMoonstone Dragon
Name: Yara
MeaningOriginDescriptionCompanionArabicDelicate dragon with butterfly-wing shimmerEtymologyUncertain; usually taken from Persian yār ("friend, companion"), also used in Arabic; the "small butterfly" gloss circulates on name sites without a source.Say itYAH-rahThe description records lasting bonds with other intelligent beings, and the Zagros team has one adult that returned to the same shepherd's hut for eleven winters.A dragon would sayRéthliterally friendgem dialectLightning/Storm Dragon
Name: Yildirim
MeaningOriginDescriptionLightning BoltTurkishBolt that earned a sultan's nameEtymologyTurkish yıldırım ("lightning, thunderbolt"); the epithet of Sultan Bayezid I (reigned 1389–1402) and a masculine given name.Say ityul-duh-RUMThe Anatolian plateau lairs sit on the iron ores the Hittites first smelted; the Turkish survey reads the old thunder-god reliefs at those sites as the earliest lair markers in the region.A dragon would sayTsakliterally lightningcore DraconicEuropean Dragon
Name: Ymir
MeaningOriginDescriptionPrimordial GiantNorseAn ancient ice dragon of tremendous sizeA dragon would sayTherskhorliterally ancient · greatcore DraconicCrystal Dragon
Name: Yugawaralite
MeaningOriginDescriptionHot Spring StoneGeographicA white dragon with zeolite structureEtymologyNamed in 1952 for Yugawara (湯河原, "hot-water river-plain"), the Japanese hot-spring town where it was found, + the mineral suffix -ite.Say ityoo-gah-WAR-ah-lyteThe white zeolite adults are logged around hot springs, where the mineral forms; the Hakone survey attributes two spring collapses to an animal digging for it.A dragon would sayNeshthrélhstorliterally new · season · earthgem dialectEmerald Dragon
Name: Yeşim
MeaningOriginDescriptionJadeTurkishJade, a Turkish girl's nameEtymologyTurkish yeşim ("jade"), from an Old Turkic word; a feminine given name.Say ityeh-SHEEMThe Turkish word for the stone; the Anatolian survey uses it alongside Zümrüt, the second for the brood females and this for their daughters.A dragon would sayZálhkstorliterally green · earthgem dialectTopaz Dragon
Name: Yamabuki
MeaningOriginDescriptionGolden YellowJapaneseGolden yellow of the kerria flowerEtymologyJapanese yamabuki (山吹), the kerria flower, from yama ("mountain") + fuki ("blowing"); yamabuki-iro is the traditional golden-yellow colour named for it.Say ityah-mah-BOO-keeThe traditional Japanese colour name for the exact golden yellow of the type's mid-range scales; the survey's colour chart uses it.A dragon would sayKhorvkérsthovliterally gold · sun · huegem dialectRuby Dragon
Name: Yakut
MeaningOriginDescriptionRubyTurkishThe Turkish word for rubyEtymologyTurkish yakut ("ruby"), from Arabic yāqūt, via Syriac from Greek hyákinthos, the classical name of a red-blue stone; also the name of the Sakha people of Siberia, by a separate route.Say ityah-KOOTThe Anatolian survey's word for the type; the adult it tracks holds the Kızılırmak bend, and the river's red silt and the animal's scale are the same iron colour from the air.A dragon would sayBrákhglishliterally red · crystalgem dialectRuby Dragon
Name: Yawar
MeaningOriginDescriptionBloodQuechuaBlood of the Andean festivalEtymologyQuechua yawar ("blood"); Yawar Fiesta, the blood festival of the Andes, and Yawar Mayu, the "blood river".Say itYAH-warThe Andean survey took the word from the herders of the Cordillera Blanca, who use it for the streak of red an adult leaves on a snowfield when it lands hot.A dragon would sayDrákhliterally bloodgem dialectRuby Dragon
Name: Yollotl
MeaningOriginDescriptionHeartNahuatlHeart, the seat of lifeEtymologyNahuatl yōllōtl ("heart"), from the same root as yōli ("to live").Say itYOH-lohtlThe Mexica held the heart to be the seat of heat and life, and the Sierra Madre thermographs show the field description's heat state beginning at the sternum and spreading outward.A dragon would sayDrélhkliterally heartgem dialectDiamond Dragon
Name: Yaksha
MeaningOriginDescriptionHoard GuardianSanskritNature spirit guarding Kubera's treasuresEtymologySanskrit yakṣa (यक्ष), the nature spirits who guard the treasures of Kubera; the root is uncertain, perhaps yakṣ ("to honour").Say itYUK-shuhThe Himalayan teams' word for what the lore calls a collection of artifacts: a guarded hoard whose keeper is benevolent to whoever arrives with a question and not a pick.A dragon would sayDroshshérth-orliterally hoard · defend · -ergem dialectGarnet Dragon
Name: Yaqut
MeaningOriginDescriptionRubyArabicRuby; the geographer's nameEtymologyArabic yāqūt (ياقوت, "ruby, corundum"), borrowed from Greek hyákinthos through Syriac; the name of the geographer Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.Say ityah-KOOTThe geographer's name and the ruby's; the Hejaz survey uses it for an adult that keeps its hoard sorted by stone, which the lore's geological expertise makes usual.A dragon would sayBrákhglishliterally red · crystalgem dialectLunar Dragon
Name: Yueliang
MeaningOriginDescriptionBright MoonChineseA pearlescent dragon that glows with soft moonlightEtymologyMandarin Chinese yuèliang (月亮), from yuè (月, "moon") + liàng (亮, "bright"): the everyday word for the moon.Say ityweh-LYAHNGThe everyday Chinese word joins moon and brightness, and the Kunlun observers note the same pairing: the opalescent scales give back enough moonlight to make the animal brighter than the disc behind it.A dragon would sayLithleshliterally bright · mooncore DraconicLunar Dragon
Name: Yue
MeaningOriginDescriptionMoon, MonthChineseA dragon representing lunar harmonyEtymologyChinese yuè (月), "moon" and "month"; the oracle-bone form of the character is a drawing of the crescent.Say itYWEHThe character is a crescent, and the Kunlun observers count the type's descents by it: one on most nights of the waxing half, almost none once the disc begins to wane.A dragon would sayLeshliterally mooncore DraconicMoonstone Dragon
Name: Yana
MeaningOriginDescriptionGod Is GraciousHebrewBlessed dragon with divine connectionEtymologySlavic Yana (Яна), a form of Jana or Joanna, from Hebrew Yōḥānān ("Yahweh is gracious"); the "God's grace" gloss is the same name shortened.Say itYAH-nahA Balkan name in the Tatra logs, applied to a female whose lair, unusually for the type, sits beside a monastery that has kept its own sighting records since 1911.A dragon would sayThakhréshdorliterally god · good · givegem dialectMoonstone Dragon
Name: Yohualli
MeaningOriginDescriptionNightNahuatlNight, the wind's companionEtymologyNahuatl yohualli ("night"); Yohualli Ehecatl, "Night Wind", was a title of the god Tezcatlipoca.Say ityoh-WAHL-leeNight in the language of the Mexican highlands; the Iztaccíhuatl sighting of 1999 gave the archive its only Central American record of the type.A dragon would sayNúrkhliterally nightgem dialectLunar Dragon
Name: Yggdrasil
MeaningOriginDescriptionOdin's HorseNorseA cosmic lunar guardianEtymologyOld Norse Yggdrasill, from Yggr ("the terrible one", a name of Odin) + drasill ("horse"): the world tree, read as the gallows Odin hung from.Say itIG-druh-silThe tree whose crown holds the sky; the archive uses it for the stack of altitudes the type moves through, from the mesosphere to the thermosphere.A dragon would sayRolkabraskliterally ride · beastcore DraconicMiddle Eastern Dragon
Name: Yam
MeaningOriginDescriptionSea DragonCanaaniteDragon of storms and wavesA dragon would sayShorkkhathliterally sea · dragoncore DraconicEuropean Dragon
Name: Yakov
MeaningOriginDescriptionSupplanterHebrewA clever dragon using strategy over forceA dragon would sayKozliterally takecore DraconicEuropean Dragon
Name: Yngve
MeaningOriginDescriptionYoung WarriorNorseA vigorous young combat dragonA dragon would sayNeshdrekh-orliterally new · fight · -ercore DraconicEuropean Dragon
MeaningOriginDescriptionResponding DragonChinese MythologyWinged dragon who served the Yellow Emperor and brought rainA dragon would sayTherkhathliterally hear · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Yulong
MeaningOriginDescriptionRain DragonChinese FolkloreDragon bringing rainfall and moistureA dragon would sayTeshshelkhathliterally sky · water · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Youlong
MeaningOriginDescriptionWandering DragonChinese FolkloreDragon that travels freely through realmsA dragon would sayMer-orkhathliterally go · -er · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Yonglong
MeaningOriginDescriptionEternal DragonChinese CultureImmortal dragon of great longevityA dragon would sayNokhmorkhkhathliterally not · die · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Yunlong
MeaningOriginDescriptionCloud DragonChinese LiteratureDragon riding and controlling cloudsA dragon would sayKhelvkhathliterally cloud · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Yaolong
MeaningOriginDescriptionJade DragonChinese CultureDragon with jade-like qualitiesA dragon would sayZalkstorkhathliterally green · earth · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Yanlong
MeaningOriginDescriptionFlame DragonChinese MythologyDragon controlling fireA dragon would sayKherkhathliterally fire · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Yilong
MeaningOriginDescriptionRighteous DragonChinese LiteratureMorally correct dragonA dragon would sayReshkrestkhathliterally good · command · dragoncore DraconicChinese Dragon
Name: Yinlong
MeaningOriginDescriptionHidden DragonChinese LiteratureConcealed or mysterious dragonA dragon would saySkov-enkhathliterally hide · -ed · dragoncore DraconicMesoamerican Dragon
Name: Yayauhqui
MeaningOriginDescriptionBlack SpiritAztecA dragon of night wisdomA dragon would sayDosknevliterally black · spiritcore DraconicMiddle Eastern Dragon
