 From 1914 he started to artificially create well sounding new word stems to replace awkward compound words.Thus, he proposed "relv" ("weapon") instead of "sõjariist" (literally, "war tool"), "roim" ("crime") instead of "kuritöö" ("evil deed") and "veenma" ("convince") instead of "uskuma panema" ("put into believing").He generally tried to avoid the sounds "t" and "s" and preferred shorter words to longer ones.