Thank you!!

Bob

Hi John,

I have checked several translation sources for the word “Yolveren” in Turkish, and all say there is no translation for that as one word into English, nor is there a definition. However, I did find the following reference on page 225 of a document entitled Coming to Terms with Forced Migration: Post-Displacement Restitution of Citizenship Rights in Turkey:

“For example, the Yezidi village of Yolveren (Çinerya) [in Turkey’s Central District], at a distance of 10 minutes from the district center of Beşiri.”

Most intriguing that there appears to be no official word “Yolveren” with any meaning in the Turkish language, and yet a village bears that name. I got to thinking, perhaps it is a surname? Still, it piqued my curiosity to know why they picked that title for The Go-Giver, so I dug a bit deeper and tried separating syllables. I found that veren is one Turkish word for giver, and yol, when used as an adjective, can mean itinerary or road.

So my take on this is that they created a new word, yolveren, to combine the words for a route or a road with the noun for giver, rendering The Go-Giver as perhaps The Way of the Giver. I think they may have felt that was a more accurate picture of your title’s intent than the literal translation of “go-giver,” which would appear to be “girmek veren.”

I hope this is of some help.

Sharon

Thanks, Sharon—you’re amazing!

Since the review is headlined, “Yolveren not Yolkesen wins,” I imagine “kesen” means something like getter (GoogleTranslate has it as interrupter).

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