words wholly unrelated*

ragbag:

genius & ingenious

the former from gignere (to be born). the latter from ingenium (clever (and also where the word engine comes from)).

previously.

*etymologically speaking, duh.

Here, I will join in the fun and refer to a post I made, in a similar spirit:

Wysteries of the World

The word ‘obsequies’ (from the Latin obsequiae meaning ‘funeral rites’) has only a tenuous — it is etymologically and temporally distant — relation to the word ‘obsequious’ (which derives from the Latin sequi ‘follow’) and means ‘sycophantic.’