Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25936766-20161018234259

Let's see....the YT Captions call it Sanas, and it most certainly sounds that way. The Wikia says it's Sunnus, though personally it doesn't sound like Sunnus (that would sound more like "son-nos" to me).

Youtube Captions are unreliable since everyone can edit them. And the Wikia admits they don't actually know if it's Sunnus or not. Hence why I made this thread.

I believe it is indeed Sanas. Not just from how it sounds, but for other reasons. For starters, no location so far has a meaningless/gibberish name. Vale, Mistral, Vacuo and Atlas all have meanings, they are actual words.

-Vale: A valley   / -Mistral: A cold, strong wind at the northen mediterranean.

-Vacuo: Vaccum / Void    /  -Atlas: The Greek Titan, punished with carrying the Celestial Spheres.

Just to give examples. The same goes with their Academies and Combat Schools.

So, we should assume the continents are the same. They also have a meaningful name. In Vale's case, it's continent has at least 2 possible options for a name so far: Sanas, and Sunnus. How do we know which one is (the more likely to be) the one? Simple: We check and see which one has meaning.

-With Sunnus, I searched. But found nothing, neither a meaning in a dictionary, or even how to pronounce it. The closest I found was Sonus, which has a very different pronounciation from Sanas, which is how I heard Qrow call the continent, and how the captions say it is.

-With Sanas, I found many meanings. For starters, in Portuguese and Spanish, it's second-person, plural, present-tense for "Heal".

Second of all, it also has a meaning in Irish and Scottish, which our resident Irish GreyStark could please confirm. That meaning is, according to dictionaries: An announcement, signal, sign, warning.

Why the italics? Because consider what the academies of Vale are called, and the meaning of their names. It fits so much, I really doubt it was unintentional. That is, assuming it's true.

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Hence why I believe it really is Sanas. Sunnus isn't even a word. A name, maybe, but names can be anything; I've seen people with name "Ng" (yes, no vocals, just Ng. "En-gee").

At the very least, it's the one that is an actual word with actual meaning so far. So, given the other location names also have meanings and are actual words, Occam's Razor says that, between these 2, Sanas is the answer to believe in, at least for the moment. 