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    Quote Originally Posted by Khamsin
    Quote Originally Posted by DeadLegend
    Metsanhaltija and Metsanneitsyt. All lead by the great god of literacy, Ulagohvsdi Tlugvi
    Sounds like ancient finnish.

    and uh
    Dia is spanish for day >.> that's what I've always related it to since in the original ff it was an anti-undead spell.
    I thought that was Harm? I don't recall Dia being in FF1.
    It's on the GBA version.

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    I always throught of it as "Diabilitate" until I realized that wasn't actually a word. -_-




    I like old Dragon Warrior spells. Who needs etymology when you have "hurt" and "hurtmore"

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    Dia means Dispel Undead. This is not a guess, but right out of the mouth of an official translator.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRP
    Dia means Dispel Undead. This is not a guess, but right out of the mouth of an official translator.
    Ah, I see. Dispel Undead.

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    The answer was right infront of us the whole time!

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    or reverse it and add an "S" to the end of it.

    then take a look at what it does, lowers defence and does damage over time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by izembo
    or reverse it and add an "S" to the end of it.

    then take a look at what it does, lowers defence and does damage over time.
    i lol'd

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    Quote Originally Posted by Khamsin
    Quote Originally Posted by BRP
    Dia means Dispel Undead. This is not a guess, but right out of the mouth of an official translator.
    Ah, I see. Dispel Undead.
    I don't know if BRP is joking or not, but:

    Dispel >> DI SU PE RU
    Undead >> A N DE - DO

    Sorry, office computer doesn't have IME installed.

    edit: Still retarded from an etymological standpoint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TP
    Quote Originally Posted by Khamsin
    Quote Originally Posted by BRP
    Dia means Dispel Undead. This is not a guess, but right out of the mouth of an official translator.
    Ah, I see. Dispel Undead.
    I don't know if BRP is joking or not, but:

    Dispel >> DI SU PE RU
    Undead >> A N DE - DO

    Sorry, office computer doesn't have IME installed.

    edit: Still retarded from an etymological standpoint.
    Pretty sure there's no Di in JP. There's Ji but it's pronounced Dji.

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    Always thought it was a version of a latin based word for 'god' in the feminine.

    Ohwell ;/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moochi
    Pretty sure there's no Di in JP. There's Ji but it's pronounced Dji.
    There definatly is, though it only shows in katakana words (like DISUPERU cough).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moochi
    Pretty sure there's no Di in JP. There's Ji but it's pronounced Dji.
    There's a ji, it's the 'hard' version of shi.
    ジャンプ is 'Jump,' for example.
    The way you usually see 'di' depicted in katakana is via a 'glide:' デイ, (the half-size katakana [not well-shown here] replaces the -e sound) and not ヂ, which is the 'hard' version of 'chi,' but does have more of a dji pronunciation to it.

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    There is no DI per se. When JP want the hard D sound, they use DE + small I

    edit: I think I just repeated what Eraphiel said, but no IME here, so his characters are all ?'s to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cassiraa
    I like old Dragon Warrior spells. Who needs etymology when you have "hurt" and "hurtmore"
    lmao, I remember those names, and not even thinking they were anything funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eraphiel
    Quote Originally Posted by Moochi
    Pretty sure there's no Di in JP. There's Ji but it's pronounced Dji.
    There's a ji, it's the 'hard' version of shi.
    ジャンプ is 'Jump,' for example.
    The way you usually see 'di' depicted in katakana is via a 'glide:' デイ, (the half-size katakana [not well-shown here] replaces the -e sound) and not ヂ, which is the 'hard' version of 'chi,' but does have more of a dji pronunciation to it.
    Ah, I see. Still learning. Started a class a month ago!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TP
    There is no DI per se. When JP want the hard D sound, they use DE + small I

    edit: I think I just repeated what Eraphiel said, but no IME here, so his characters are all ?'s to me.
    This isn't entirely true. There's two versions of "ji". one is "shi" with the quotation mark after it, the other is "chi" with the quotation mark after it. Both can be written as "ji" in romaji, but the latter is occasionally written as "di" in romaji, or sometimes "zi". There aren't too many words using this character, but ちぢむ is one. In any case, it only "sort of" sounds like di. It's somewhere between "ji" and "di" how you make the sound.

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    What is the Japanese word for "Dispel" and "Undead"?

    Or is it really a wasei-eigo (or whatever its called)?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Khamsin
    What is the Japanese word for "Dispel" and "Undead"?

    Or is it really a wasei-eigo (or whatever its called)?
    Both are borrowed from english. Dispel seem to have a real JP word for it also though which is はらす (harasu). Undead only has one word according to my translator, what TP said, アンデッド(andeddo).

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    This isn't entirely true. There's two versions of "ji". one is "shi" with the quotation mark after it, the other is "chi" with the quotation mark after it. Both can be written as "ji" in romaji, but the latter is occasionally written as "di" in romaji, or sometimes "zi". There aren't too many words using this character, but ちぢむ is one. In any case, it only "sort of" sounds like di. It's somewhere between "ji" and "di" how you make the sound.
    Yeah, that version (chi w/ ") I was taught was romanized more like dji, or dzi, so it's kinda what I'm used to depicting it as.

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