About Raja

Derivation: Rajah is derived from the Sanskrit raja, “king,” and maharaja, “great king.” The Sanskrit root raj-, “to rule,” comes from the Indo-European root *reg-, “to move in a straight line, direct, rule.” The same Indo-European root appears in Latin and Celtic. Rex means “king” in Latin and is derived from reg-s which is also the origin of words such as regal and royal. Dumnorix the Aeduan and Vercingetorix, whose stories are told in Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars, were Gaulish kings whose names incorporate the word rix, meaning "king" in their names. In Germanic, "rix" appears as reiks, meaning "ruler." It is similar to Dietrich, which means "people's king." Finally, a derivative of the Celtic rix, rig-yo-, meaning "rule, domain," was also borrowed by Germanic and is the source of the word Reich, meaning "rule, or empire."