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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I've been reading your Vorkosigan saga novels for two months and yesterday I had a "shower thought" and I'd like to know if I'm guessing correctly: the 'Vor' prefix is the reverse of 'rov', which is a suffix used in many russian names. Am I right? I tried to read some of the names in reverse and they sound quite alright (at least for my 'romanian ear').
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nope. "Vor" is an aristocratic prefix I made up for the sound of it, back in the day, in echo of such things as the German "von", French "de", Dutch "van der", and others. I was pleased to learn later that it was also the Russian word for "thief", which fit right in.
Ta, L.
Nope. "Vor" is an aristocratic prefix I made up for the sound of it, back in the day, in echo of such things as the German "von", French "de", Dutch "van der", and others. I was pleased to learn later that it was also the Russian word for "thief", which fit right in.
Ta, L.
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