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grinnoire · 7 years ago

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also while doc himself is probably not very religious (despite his growing up in the deep south, it just seems too contrary to his "science" side of the science v. mysticism debate between him and his wife) his family has a long history of biblical names (solomon and the samuel named in the prequel comics), so zak's name was probably chosen as a continuation of that trend. personally i really like the idea of it being spelled zakarya/zakkarya, though in any case i imagine his full name is some spelling variation on zechariah rather than zacharie. it means "god has remembered," which is either quite fitting or quite ironic, depending on your point of view...

addendum: doyle and drew both have irish names and doyle's etymology is "descendent of black strangers (referring to scandinavians)" while drew's is "descendent of the druids" (you kind of have to search for the irish drew etymology, since there's an english meaning of "manly" which...also yeah). it's just neat that they went through the trouble of giving the siblings names with matching etymologies.

it's also neat that the germanic origin for the name "drew" can possibly be words for ghost/phantom or "to bear, carry", especially in relation to zak. solomon's name was probably chosen with relation to the lesser key of solomon, which is a grimoire on demonology, which is kind of like what doc does for a living anyway. solomon on its own means "peace."

#the secret saturdays #zak saturday #elsh says #i mean zacharie and zechariah and zakkarya are all essentially the Same Name in various states of romanization #so it doesn't really matter which name variant you prefer since it's gonna have the same meaning either way #drew's really into paleoanthropology and anthropology in general so she would probably be the one to suggest a less conventional spelling #doc: -flashbacks to elementary school- but wont he get teased for having an odd name? nail that sticks out...#drew: -deadpan- honey. we're homeschooling him. we've been over this #it's hard to tell with this show how much analyzing is too much analyzing since it's so well and thoroughly crafted #at the very least zak's name is a continuation of doc's family's biblical name trend #and drew and doyle were chosen to link the siblings together #i really don't think the lesser key of solomon thing is a stretch either since so much of the show banks on pseudoscience and magic history #that there's no way they never came across it during research #it's not even obscure...#some of the harder-to-find meanings might be a stretch though #like 'francis' was probably chosen specifically because it has so little meaning at first glance #(it took a lot of digging to find its etymology)#and the minor characters were just named whatever sounded good #rani nagi literally just means queen of the nagas and like #komodo. zon. fisk. these are not very deep names #anyway.

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