The word “fire” also has an ancient relation to energy and life force.
The Sanskrit word Vir means brave, hero, warrior and husband. The same in Latin. The Sanskrit vira means powerful person.
In Serbian, Croation and Bosnian vir means whirlpool (vortex).
If you make a video that spreads like wildfire it goes viral. Etymologists say virus and vir don’t have common roots, but virus derives from the burning snake venom.
If you’re on fire you experience virility because your body is full of vril, which is an 1800s word for vitality or life-force.
In old Irish Fer means virility, strength and man. The word werewolf has the same root. With too much fire one might become feral.
In Ukrainian Vira means belief and faith. Strong belief means you’re on fire, burning for something, passionate.
If you have virtue, you have fire.
Virtual reality (internet, computers) run only with electricity (fire).
The ancient biblical term virago describes a strong woman.
Energy makes you fertile. Hence the English word for “bearing” and producing is coniferous. Both virility and fertility require fire.
Fer also means iron. Iron is produced in a blast furnace.
Ferromagnetic refers to a strong, permanent magnetic field. Did you know some magnets don’t lose their energy field? Two magnets you lock together today can still be locked together in hundreds of years.
The word fairy is close to firey because they were seen to glow.
Vera is Latin for truth and faith. From it we get veracity, veritas, the verse and verity.
The Greek word for fire, Pyr replaces the F with a T: Pyr, as in pyrotechnics or Pyr-amid (indicating that a ray of fire used to come from the mid-dle of the pyra-mid).
In many languages fer simply means “man” or “human” – because a human being is primarily energy.
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