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again, the earliest senses predate those sorts of 'folk' etymologies. (16th C. CE)
I don't necessarily buy the spiel that Murray promulgated, but no one else seems to have come up with anything better over the years.
let's see what they come up with when they get to the Cs in the ongoing updates...
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