Posts: 869 I don't know Jesse, you might be on to something! IRE : from Latin ira 'wrath, rage', from Proto-Indo-European * eis 'passion' (cf. Old English ) of ost 'haste, zeal', Old Norse eisa 'to race forward', Ancient Greek heiros 'supernatural, holy', oistros 'frenzy; gadfly', Avestan aesma 'anger', Sanskrit eṣati 'it