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But a chair is virtually anything for an individual to sit on and cap, etymologically at least, originally meant cape (with a hood) or so the OED has it.
The family names are not listed as in a telephone directory, merely in alphabetical order, with no articulation between one entry and the next: rather, if names are etymologically related to one another, they are all listed under the same entry.
Here is Skeat fuming at a correspondent who had the gall to suggest that the origin of the Ox - in Oxford , long a bone of etymological contention, could be traced through Usk to a connection with Gaelic uisque `water,' as in uisquebaugh literally `water of life,' from which we get whiskey (etymologically speaking):
Note that the words should be etymologically distinct, so refuse, minute, contract do not qualify.
Although the terms loonie , a diminutive noun from loon , and loony , an adjective (ultimately) from lunar are etymologically distinct, their similarity has encouraged obvious satirical connections: our economy, which is loony, has as its fundamental unit of currency the loonie; many felt that the policies of Brian Mulroney were loony.