Etymology is a rabbit hole, especially when one thinks about how words relate to each other in different languages as well.

One example I'll never forget is the German word "greifen", which means to catch or hold onto something with your hands.

This is related to "begreifen" which means to understand, and it's fascinating to me since this brings us back to our origins as monkeys hopping between branches. Which is why in English we say we grasp a concept or an idea.

This goes so deep that in Italian there's the same relationship as in German: "prendere" means to take or to catch, "comprendere" means to understand.

Beautiful stuff if you ask me