Not a stupid question at all, I'll do my best to answer! It might help to think of the dragon language as you would another foreign language - let's take German for example. In German, the word for "dragon" is "Drachen". In Dovahzul, the word for "dragon" is "Dovah". Now maybe the German "Drachen" isn't exactly like the English word "dragon", and maybe the Dovahzul "Dovah" isn't exactly like "dragon" either, but "dragon" is the closest translation for the word "Dovah". Why "dragon" is "Dovah" or why "guide" is "Aak" is harder to explain since it's a constructed language. Someone at Bethesda decided they sounded cool! |