＂friend＂里為什麼有個＂end＂，是巧合還是造詞者認為＂朋友＂和＂結束＂之間有某種聯繫？

01-09

巧合

再舉一例，曾一度以為coincidence和coin有關

但實際上coin是單個辭彙不斷衍變的結果而coincidence是coincide的派生詞，後者是由co+in+cidence這麼衍變而來

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coin

Origin of COIN

Middle English, from Anglo-French coing wedge, corner, from Latin cuneus wedge

First Known Use: 14th century

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coincide

Origin of COINCIDE

Medieval Latin coincidere, from Latin co- + incidere to fall on, from in- + cadere to fall — more at chance

First Known Use: 1719

不是這樣拆詞的。

[OE] Etymologically, friend means 『loving』. It and its Germanic relatives (German freund, Dutch vriend, Swedish fr.nde, etc) go back to the present participle of the prehistoric Germanic verb *frijōjan 『love』 (historically, the German present participle ends in -nd, as in modern German -end; English -ng is an alteration of this). *Frijōjan itself was a derivative of the adjective *frijaz, from which modern English gets free, but which originally meant 『dear, beloved』.

來自Word origins dictionary。

簡單來說，它是來自於古英語的freond。

話說以前看到過一句很45度仰望天空的話:「就算是believe，中間也藏了一個lie。」

順便吐個槽。

believe同樣來自於古英語，原來是belefan, lieve原先來自於lefan這個詞根，回溯到最原始的德語詞源里的含義是 hold dear,to love。

大概它想表達的是，信任起源於愛，信任里沒有謊言。

可能是周五結束了大家就可以聚了的意思吧、、

悲觀人眼中的世界處處是悲觀，樂觀人眼中的世界哪裡都美好。