 He also favoured "o" in successive syllables to "u", as is common in the South Estonian dialects.Aavik considered many of his neologisms as created out of nothing (see ex nihilo lexical enrichment).However, according to Ghil'ad Zuckermann, many of Aavik's neologisms were influenced by foreign lexical items, for example words from Russian, German, French, Finnish, English and Swedish (Aavik had a broad classical education and knew Ancient Greek, Latin and French).