I don't have anything constructive to add, but that is a cool post!
You should do a post on Haile Selassie!
Could it be that aviv - aleph-ves-yud-ves -- is the source of the 'lively' English words that have viv in them, like revive and vivacious?
Hey Dave!
The last time I was at Neot Kedumim, (which by the way I highly recommend for everyone) this term was explained.
Aviv (they said) comes from avuv or hollow. Before the days of the set calendar - how did Chaza"l decide when to add Adar II to the calendar? They would go to the fields and see if the wheat (or perhaps barley - although they stated wheat if I am not mistaken) was aviv/avuv. By Nisan, there has typically been enough hot days to dry out the stalks and make them aviv/avuv, meaning that we can have Pessah b'hodesh ha'aviv. If they're still green and filled with plant material, we get another month of Adar (sort of like Groundhog Day l'havdil).
Could it be that aviv - aleph-ves-yud-ves -- is the source of the 'lively' English words that have viv in them, like revive and vivacious?
No, not at all, it's the Indo-European root meaning 'living', but the Western names that have a connexion to it, as well as the name Evelyn, which hasn't, have led to the popularity of the invented name Aviva.
About Haile Selassie - I didn't know anything about his name before, but after your comment, I looked it up and it means "Power of Trinity". It would seem that Haile is related to חיל and Selassie is related to שלוש.
As far as avuv - again, I hadn't seen that explanation before, but after you mentioned it, I looked it up and found this:
http://www.yifat.org.il/yifat/on...s.asp?
IDNews=86
While Klein doesn't go along with it, it certainly seems like a definite possibility.
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