keremyilmaz 10 months ago

I was so surprised to read this, especially since we definitely didn't know about it when naming Skyvern.

Out of curiosity, I checked both Cambridge's Norwegian-English dictionary and a few other Norwegian sources, but I couldn't find 'Skyvern' listed anywhere. Makes me wonder if Google translate just hallucinated the meaning.

  • hkon 10 months ago

    No, in Norwegian we make words by joining multiple word together (closed compound) in this case sky(cloud) and vern(protection).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

    • keremyilmaz 10 months ago

      Ah, now that makes sense! Thanks for sharing it. We definitely didn’t have that in mind when naming it Skyvern, but it's cool to see how it could be interpreted that way