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Kleindolph
September 25, 2014

-Von and -Taas

If  -Von is a canon suffix, why did we replace it with -Taas? I haven't been on here in a while and just noticed this.

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paarthurnax
Administrator
September 25, 2014

-von isn't a canon suffix, and was replaced with -taas because -taas is closer to canon. -von originally derived from sindugahvon "unyielding." However, the word for "yield" is gahvon, so the interpretation of -von as "-ing" is incorrect.

-taas comes from viintaas "shining," related to viin "shine."


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Kleindolph
September 26, 2014

Ah, thank you muchly for explaining that. Is their a new edition of the Learning Dovahzul.pdf that doesn't have the suffix -Von listed as a Canon suffix?


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paarthurnax
Administrator
September 27, 2014

There is not currently. The Learn pages have all the up to date information.


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Kleindolph
September 27, 2014

Ah! Thank you, I will be studying that then :)