Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-937287-20131125230111

I was reading some random thread and someone suggested that like with Yaqut (which comes from the Arabic word for "ruby"), Rohroh also comes from a precious stone, "pearl". And I think to myself, "....damn, that guy has a point". Pearl in Arabic is لؤلؤ Lu'lu'. Now it makes sense why the author used two half-sized ウ --> it was to represent the glottal stops at the end of each syllable (I mean the apostrophes in Lu'lu', which sound like the hyphen in "uh-oh"). The weird thing is, unlike ever other character (or more specifically, Fanalis, except for maybe Razol), his name is not a real name. The word for pearl is never used as a name by anyone, unlike the word for ruby "Yaqut". 