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Dictionary > Vokun

Word[?]
VOKUN Vokun
Word Type[?]
noun
Pronunciation[?]
/ˈvo kun, voˈkun/
Official Definition[?]

Shadow
(POGGLE, p. 1097)
(PrimaGames.com)

Expanded Definition[?]

n. shadow; darkness

Usage[?]

Alduin, feyn do jun, kruziik vokun staadnau, voth aan bahlok wah diivon fin lein!
Alduin, Bane of Kings, ancient shadow unbound, with a hunger to swallow the world!
(Book, Songs of Skyrim)

Connotations[?]

Associated with darkness and doom, possibly also evil.

Etymology[?]

From kun ‘light’ with the prefix vo- ‘un-, opposite of’.

Notes[?]

Namesake of one of the eight dragon priest masks.