Timeline for Would questions seeking native Anglo-Saxon equivalents to English terms borrowed from foreign languages be on-topic?
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| Mar 19, 2012 at 10:50 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Beware of folk etymologies. Cash, deriving either from cache or Latin capsa chest, long predates contact with China. Navy undoubtedly comes ultimately from Latin navis/navigare, though the intermediate steps are doubtful. | |
| Mar 17, 2012 at 13:20 | history | answered | karthik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |