Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-937287-20140306022330

I am just writing this here for its own sake. And the topic is super umimportant.

Notice that all magics with "Saiqa" in the name involve swords, yet the best etymology that can be found for that is "Lightning (bolt)", which in a rather forced way of thinking can be related to swords (but it works very well with Baal's lightning, and the lighting-->fire connection kind of works for Amon, but not really for Focalor).

I just realized that what possibly (key word: possibly) happened is the following: Ohtaka looked up "sword" in Arabic. She would find "sayf/saif", which in Japanese is サイフ saifu. She would have intended to change the vowel ending from "u" to "a", as she often does. However, she made a mistake. Instead of copying the last letter of "saif" while looking at the dictionary, she accidently looked at the next letter (The letter after "f" is "q" in Arabic), giving "sayq/saiq" (although there is no such word persay, look at ف ق [q on left, f on right], they are very similar, even more so with different fonts]

Just throwing it out there. Completely irrelevant topic.  