They're made from a collection of syllables randomly stuck together.
Not in V, actually-- they now use the same method as the randart names (Markov chains), except seeded with Latin names (and also "abracadabra", "piffpaffpouf", "izzy", "wizzy", "letsgetsbusy", "justlikethat", "hocus", "pocus", "shazam", "please", which explains why if izzy and wizzy crop up so much, since there are no other words that like them in the list...). You get some cracking scroll names in V now; I believe I got something like "precogitat" for a scroll once.
Just found this scroll, "im rectum"... a little afraid to use it.
“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
"shazam for"
"at as india"
"pudis come pra"
"decappa us" I can't remember what this one did, but I think my head was still attached after reading it.
"vadveo opollo"
"abi infectus" If it was a potion named thus, I may have been leery..
"relerolo"
"coleo inc" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleo
"que emansus"
"fugnas inus"
"pro santas"
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