eggcorned to start-naked. (Or was it the other way around?)

Why is it that the idea of an unknown or uncertain etymology is about as burr-under-the-saddle-itch-producing to the amateur lexicographer, as a language isolate is to the derive-all-languages-from-my-super-duper-proto-language comparative-historical linguists.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.