Like many other Eldarin languages, Danian seems to have lost a short unstressed vowel when it followed another vowel of the same quality. There are attested examples of this development for the vowels [a], [e] and [o]. There is one example, though, where the syncope appears not to have occurred: Dan. Edel < ᴹ✶edel- (Ety/ELED). It seems likely that the primitive form of this word ended in a short vowel, so perhaps primitive short final vowels vanished before the Danian syncope, thereby preventing the vowel loss.