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My own etymology, which seems painfully obvious, is revealed if one acknowledges that the proper spelling is flak , which at once clarifies the etymological origin: flak .
But the most interesting method of analyzing Vance's neologisms is by etymological speculation, which falls into roughly five categories that shade into one another like colors in the spectrum.
It frequently persists, however, as an etymological relic (French homme from Latin homo ) or with an imagined etymological value (French haut , actually from Latin altus , but influenced by Old High German hoh high).
Intrigued by Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII, 1, 13], I set about tracking the word balagan along its etymological course back from the modern Hebrew into which, according to Milton Horowitz quoting Herman Wouk, the word was borrowed from Russian.
And everyone has a favorite passage, unusual compound, or offbeat etymological theory to promote.