--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The problem is that an etymology based exclusively on
> might-have-beens and an irregular phonetic resemblance ...
One good example of an irregular phonetic resemblance is the way that
Latin [episcopus] became Anglo-Saxon [biscep] (English [bishop]). When
a word is passed about between several languages in a short time, that
sort of thing happens.