Roegadyn Naming Convention Possible Error?

[NecraMancie]

Hey! I'm a huge Roegadyn fan, and I was looking through the Roegadyn Dictionary when I saw that Skaen means "beautiful."

My issue with this is, after some research, is that Skaen should actually be "Beauty," not "Beautiful."

Why, you ask? Because it is my belief that an error has been made, and that in my opinion, Skaen is not an adjective, but actually a noun.



In order to turn a Roegadyn noun into an adjective, an i must be added to the end of the word. So Skaen - in adjective form - should be Skaeni.



In other words, in my personal opinion, Skaen is the Roegadyn word for "beauty" (N), while Skaeni is the Roegadyn word for "beautiful" (ADJ).


Just some thoughts from someone who absolutely loves the Roegadyn naming convention and would like to put some clarity in the names.

[Ametrine]

Holy necro bump, but wanted to bring it back up as your notes make sense.

[NecraMancie]

Sorry to necro bump, but I'm hoping this gets more attention than it got when I first made it. =/

[NecraMancie]

Necro bump. I posted this years ago, but figured this should not be lost. :X

[LathyrusLoon]

Necro reply, this totally makes sense and I agree.

[Canadane]

Necros aren't real, they can't hurt you.
It's not illegal to bump an old topic, this isn't the 90s.

[Iscah]

The element skaen is used in two names: female Skaenrael (Beautiful Doe) and male Skaenryss (Beautiful Giant) -- so starting from that end of the apparent inconsistency, it is how the word is used by Roegadyn and so is correct, even if it seems like an inconsistency to us as "foreigners" working out the language from fragments.

If it is following grammatical rules and not just an oddity, then I suspect a different rule is in play to the one you're looking at.

Verb -> Noun(ing)

verb+n
Floer (Lead) + n = Floern (Leading)

Ex: Floernmann (Leading Man)

(Though I think the header line should be "Verb > Adjective(ing)" rather than "Noun(ing)".)

Near to skaen in the Roegadyn dictionary you can find similarly structured adjectives skarn ("horrible") and skoen ("shining").

"Shining" already is an "ing" word, and it's not hard to imagine that skarn might more literally translate to "scaring" (with usage evolving from a thing that is scaring you > a scary thing > a horrible thing).

So it's possible that skaen has likewise come from a verb skae that has not been provided to us but might mean something like "attract" or "appeal" on its own, but when turned into an "ing" form and used in in this way, might be better translated as "beautiful" (or "handsome" in some contexts) than the literal verb form.