A fun example of the opposite – a pair of very similar words that have totally different etymologies – are "carouse" and "carousel". The former comes via French

A fun example of the opposite – a pair of very similar words that have totally different etymologies – are "carouse" and "carousel". The former comes via French from German "gar aus", an exclamation with the same meaning as "drink up" in English (literally, "quite out"). The latter, on the other hand, also comes via French but from Italian, and originally means a type of military drill or display executed by horsemen.