Dogfolk names

Although the language of the Dogfolk (Houndstongue, or Cootenga) was a fusion of various Celtic languages, particularly Brythonic, names of individuals were derived entirely from extreme onomatopoeic descriptions about the person's behavior, outlook, personality, and deeds, given during a ceremony by an-duty shaman, who would be also performing ritual midwife practices at the time, shortly after birth. The given name was a form of divination for the newborn's future.

Naming ceremony
After the child, or puppy, was judged to healthy after being birthed or whelped, the midwife (nefsee, related to the Old Irish cnáimsech) would take the various birthing-juices and smear the sacred tribal symbol -- a crescent with three lines striking through it -- on the head of the newborn. Then, she would enter into a brief trance by ingesting a small bit of the sacred mushroom provided to her by an assistant. When she emerged from this, some minutes later, she would declare what the child's name would be, and in this way, also tell its fortune.

Conventions
The name given to the newborn was never more than two syllables, and always began with what linguistically would be termed the voiced labio-velar approximant -- in more simplistic terms the English w sound. The name would be, additionally, untranslatable into either Houndstongue, English, or any other language, but the nature of which would be inferred by how it sounded logically to the listener.