Word Etymologies
Comments discuss the historical origins, derivations, and etymologies of various English words, often debating false etymologies, sharing facts, and linking to resources like etymonline and Wikipedia.
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Not a coincidence, it was derived from the word!
But 'common' is derived from Latin, too! :P
You probably mean 'etymology'. The other one is about bugs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_etymology
Either you mean "etymology", or that's a really unusual and interesting sentence :-)
What's the etymology of that?
Etymologically I'm pretty sure it is.
It's basically the same word. Just spelling/pronouncation getting corrupted down the years as it went latin-french-english.
look up the (speculative) etymology of OK for instance
In the sense of "that's where it came from".