Thread:GreenMoriyama/@comment-28254399-20180108063121

Dear friend Moriyama,

I'm currently conflicted about the name Avarosa's etymology. Straightforwardly, the name contains two Latin words ava "grandmother" & rosa "rose". According to Ashe's lore, this Iceborn queen's tomb was marked with the runeword, so in runic script the name would appear as ᚨᚹᚨᚱᛟᛊᚨ.

Yet in real-life Latin names were rarely written in rune (e.g. Marcus son of Benedict on a Swedish rune-stick), while Germanic names abound. So I interpreted the name Avarosa as from Proto-Norse ᚨᚢᚺᚨᚺᚱᚢᛊᚨ Auhahrussaₙ "stream-horse". Germanic names with hrussaₙ are rare, the horse is a well-known Germanic cult animal: Rosalind "horse-lithe" & Horsa, a mythological Anglo-Saxo-Jutish warrior. Still, according to regular sound-changes Auhahrussaₙ would become, at least in Old West Norse, Áhross ᚬᚼᚱᚢᛋ.

So in your opinion, whence comes the name Avarosa: Latin or native Germanic? I ask this because the name of Lissandra, a sister of Avarosa, is obviously Greek in rea-life. 