"darasuum" and some thoughts on it
So I've already talked about this at length (@kyraltre sorry for dumping all that on you lol) but I decided that I'll make a real post on it now that my thoughts are a bit more in order.
The word darasuum means eternity in Mando'a, and it's a word that pretty much anyone in the Clone Wars fandom will know, because of Vode An. But because of it's commonality, I've never thought about it much, until I decided to go find some of the roots and meanings behind it.
First off is dar.
Dar as a prefix means gone, temporary, or no longer [word]. For example, the word dar'manda means no longer Mandalorian, as dar'vod means no longer a brother. So what does dar mean in darasuum?
From what I could find (MandoCreator for anyone who's curious), the word asuum doesn't exist, but arasuum does.
Arasuum as a noun means stagnation, or the state of staying the same. Although this kind of gets rid of the dar prefix, I think that it could still work. If you assume that the d can work in place of a dar, darasuum can translate roughly to "no longer/not stagnant," or "changing". This ties into the Jedi teaching of the future always being in motion, so eternity must always be changing as well.
Taking that into account, one meaning of the Mandalorian eternity could be an ever-changing future, which I do really like, but I think there could be more layers to it.
So, let's go back to the original word, darasuum. Another root that I noticed was the word suum.
Suum is an adjective that straight up means "beyond". This (to me) references another Mandalorian (or at least I believe it's Mandalorian. there's a very good chance it's fanon that ive taken as canon, and if so someone please correct me) saying, "Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la". "Not gone, merely marching far away". Within my interpretation, this could mean marching beyond life, and into eternity.
Another word that I noticed was aran, guard. It isn't exactly there, but ara could work as a substitute for it.
Adding in the dar to ara implies the opposite of a guard, which I am taking to mean "unguarded", or someone who doesn't monitor or protect.
Putting this all together, you get "unguarded/open beyond", and again, this might be a bit of a stretch, but I think that this could show that eternity is not a fixed point, nor is it something to work towards. Living for eternity could be possible, because eternity doesn't pick and choose what can reach it, or what cannot.
And if you add in the death interpretation, this could mean that anyone has a chance at whatever is "beyond" life, regardless of what they did while they were there.
