Almost. They both share the same Proto-Indo-European root, which is reconstructed as *wi-ro.

Germanic, Italic, Celtic, and even Indo-Iranian languages all have commonality in PIE.

This is a fun one. It comes through Persian and Arabic from the Sanskrit “naranga-s” - which describes the tree. But despite the Dutch adoption of the color, the place name “Orange” in titles like William of Orange is from the Latin name “Arausio”, which probably has Celtic origin.

Harper agrees with your etymology but has a more mundane (and in my view, more likely) explanation of why “three ways” came to mean “something simple or ordinary”:

literally “of or belonging to the crossroads,” […] The sense connection is “public,” hence “common, commonplace.”

https://www.etymonline.com/word/trivial

Happy to see etymology discussion. I used to run r/etymology, suspended it during the API debacle as part of the blackout, and got replaced by Reddit and banned by the new mod.

The “were” in “werewolf” also gives us “world” (originally referring to humanity, as in “the epoch of mankind”) and also came through Latin, giving us, among other things, “virtue” (as in, the measure of a man, I think), and “virile”.

There’s some discontent around Sync at the moment because of apparent infrequent developer updates that mean it hasn’t kept pace with changes to Lemmy. There’s nothing wrong with financially supporting developers - quite the opposite - and app development isn’t a cakewalk, but it’s worth doing a search to get users’ opinions before spending the money in this instance.

You picked a great picture to illustrate this - it’s from The School of Athens by Raphael and not only does your crop depict Plato, to whom quotes are often misattributed, but Raphael was thought to have modeled him on Leonardo da Vinci, who also crops up a lot in these contexts.

I like your comment for the most part, but:

obviously comes from a mishearing by someone who didn’t read books

This is assumptive and prescriptive. The link I sent demonstrates that it’s been used extensively and for a long time by people who not only read books, but write books. I’m on board that “set foot” is the better phrase and likely to be the earlier one, but trying to dictate which is correct is - respectfully - a fool’s errand.

“Set foot” might be better established (and sound better), but “step foot” is not new.