Once I was trying to invent a character name based on indo-european roots, I kept finding words like cruel, Kaiser, and Caesar coming from IE roots meaning things like 'kill', 'judge' choose', and 'law' I don't have my notes and I don't know the exact roots.

I am not a linguist, so maybe the transforms of the roots I was using wouldn't be likely developments in natural usage, but the meanings fir pretty well. I remember thinking 'This must be what pseudoscience is like, I could be a crackpot with this!'