User:KnaboKnehtaz/ChampsNameEtymologySandbox

Greetings to all, this is the page where I discuss champions' names' etymology. Any comments or criticisms are welcome, as long as they are reliably sourced.

Azir the Strong Bull
I posited that the 's name resembles Egyptian theonym Wsjr ; & my Egyptian etymological dictionary stated its root to be wsr "strong". Linguists (Militarev?) at the Tower of Babel project reconstructed Proto-Afro-Asiatic *čawr- "strong" (sound change č > s; & metathesis č/s-w-r > w-s-r).

I notice the similarity between this adjective *čawr- "strong" & the very common Afro-Asiatic noun *čaw(a)r- ~ *čiw(a)r-, which denotes large, herbivorous animals.

Indeed, *čawr- yielded Egyptian wsr & Semitic θrw "rich" > Arabic ثَرَا θurayya "rich" > Persian female name Sorayya. *čaw(a)r- ~ *čiw(a)r- yielded Egyptian šsr "sacrificial bull" & Semitic *θawr- "bull".
 * In turn, *čaw(a)r- ~ *čiw(a)r- might've originally meant "the strong one > bull" (most commonly-known meaning) > "elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus" elsewhere;

Semitic *θawr- might've been loaned into Proto-Indo-European, becoming *(s)tawros > Greek ταῦρος, Latin taurus, Germanic *steuraz > Engl. "steer", etc.

Still, take all those I've written with a large spoon of salt. Since Project Babel's claims are controversial, even among linguists.

Sivir the Overwhelmer
The real-life word which resembles the 's name Sivir the most Latin severus. DeVaan reconstructed severus's Proto-Italic form as *sehweros "steadfast" < root *seǵʰ- "to hold, to overwhelm".
 * Root *seǵʰ- also yield many words in daughter languages to do with overwhelming, plunder, war, etc. like:
 * Sanskrit सहस् sáhas "strength",
 * Greek name Ἕκτωρ ,
 * & the very common Germanic name element *segaz ~ *sigiz in names like "victorious peace",  "victorious protection", etc.