2117: sooth Oct 1, 2020

The word 'etymology' comes from the Greek adjective 'etumos' meaning 'true', but this root may also be connected to the English 'sooth'. At first glance these may not seem to look the same at all but the Greek stem is actually 'et(a)-', and -(u)m- is apparently derivational morphology. This Greek root also appears in other words, and is connected to a derived Indo-European root *set- (true). Some also connected to ‘sin’, the original meaning of which was guilt in a legal sense, and if this is true, then this would too be related to the German ‘sind’ ([plural/formal] ‘are’) and the Latin ‘sunt’, from where the ‘-sent’ of ‘absent’ and ‘present’ derive'.