582: coy and quiet Jul, 12, 2016

It is not uncommon to see that two words are derived of a same, older word. The cause of this can be one of many things, but usually it is the case that the two words entered the same language relatively independent. The word 'coy' entered Middle English meaning 'quiet, shy' as it does today from Anglo-French, 'quoi, qui, koi', which itself is ultimately from the Latin, 'quietus'. If you didn't already guess, that is the same root for 'quiet', but that word was created directly based off of the Latin instead.