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| Mar 9, 2016 at 22:27 | history | edited | Null♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:09 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Pureferret That's not a reverse-Grimm though. A reverse-Grimm (and Verner) would give you… well, Latin in this case: Darth Pater. The Dutch/German v here is just orthographic: it historically represents a /f/. And the d in Dutch and German is a later development from /ð/, not the other way around. | |
| Feb 28, 2014 at 20:14 | comment | added | Chris B. Behrens | He doesn't exist..."Janaka" is Sanskrit for "father". | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 14:51 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @ChrisB.Behrens: plz to provide detail of sithlord Darth Janaka he is EU character? | |
| Jul 7, 2012 at 21:00 | comment | added | Mr Lister | The funny thing is that in the Dutch translation of the book, lord Vader is named "Veder", which does sound a bit like the English "Vader". But it means Feather. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 14:35 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | It wouldn't need to come from dutch specifically. If Lucas had just Reverse Grim's Lawed 'Father'. To do so you'd change 'F' to 'V', and then 'Th' to 'D'. Simple. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 22:32 | comment | added | Michael Itzoe | It's been a long time, so I don't remember the source, but I do remember reading once that "dark father" was an allusion to Lucas's estrangement from his own father. Plus, Luke's name is a play as well: Luke S. = Lucas. | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 16:46 | comment | added | Chris B. Behrens | I've heard the Dutch "Vader = Father" thing, but two things have always struck me. 1 - it's not clear to me that Lucas knew that Vader was Luke's father when he wrote Star Wars (despite what anyone has said after the fact). If I'm a writer, I'm choosing a name based on the sound of the word in the language I'm writing in. And what is magic about Dutch? He could have chosen Sanskrit, and it's "Darth Janaka". I think it's pretty clear that he chose "Vader" because it's cognate to "invader". I won't preclude the possibility that he chose it for more than one reason, though. Fun stuff. | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 16:20 | comment | added | Daenyth | Actually, I think "Darth Vader" comes from a tweaked "Dark Father" | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 13:51 | comment | added | Chris B. Behrens | One who would never budge in an argument would be Darth Transigent. | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 22:41 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Heh, and a Sith who failed miserably at everything would have the ironic name Darth Competent. | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 17:57 | history | answered | Chris B. Behrens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |