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[organics peach]

I know that Esuna has been the been the white magic spell for curing status ailiments, but what does it mean? Is it a latin word or something? I looked it up on dictionary.com and it didn't have a definition.

[Flashback007]

If I am correct, I readt it somewhere Esuna is a Japanese word. That was stuck in translations. I almost never use Esuna, cause I just only hate the word. In FFVI they say Remedy or Antdot, that is for me much clearer what it does. When I first saw Esuna I didn't knew what it did. I casted it on me and it didn't do nothing, so I didn't touch it for the rest of the game.

[One winged angel of death]

esuna i think means healing of alements (pains).

[NashX]

Seeing as FF is wholly and truly Japanese, SephNL is probably right about esuna being a Japanese word. It sounds Japanese, doesn't it?

[organics peach]

Thanks for the help everyone, It does make sense that esuna is a Japanese word, I like the word too becuase it's unique to the Final Fantasy games.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

From what I can tell, "Esuna" isn't a Japanese word at all.

If I had to hypothesize on what it means, the obvious part is that the suffix "na" can mean to undo something; for example, in FFI, the spell Blina is short for "Blind-na," basically meaning "Antiblind." Similarly, Poisona means "Antipoison," and Stona is "Antistone."

The only real question, then, is where the "esu" comes from. Now, this is pure conjecture, but it could indicate the pronounciation of the Roman letter "S," making it "S-na." "S," then, could stand for "status," which would mean "Esuna" means "Antistatus."

[Giga Guess]

That makes sense, oh great Square-bot.

[Roogle]

Esuna is pronounced "Es-na", so Kawaii Ryûkishi is probably right. It's either that or you take "esu" in Japanese, which means "sister", and think of it as Antisister.