An etymological query. Today's word is monesterous. In reading its etymology, I was struck by the similarity between "oistros" for gadfly/madness in monesterous and "Middle English oistre" in oyster. The two abbreviated etymologies are posted below. Any connection between them? They both have Greek ancestors...

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OysterETYMOLOGY: Middle English oistre, from Old French, from Latin ostreum, ostrea, from Greek ostreon.

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MONESTEROUSCombining form mon- (one) from Greek monos, mono- + oistros (gadfly, madness).]

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