> Retirement and tired have the same root. This does not appear to be true. "retire" is from French retirer, to pull (something) back -- as e.g. a general mig

> Retirement and tired have the same root. This does not appear to be true. "retire" is from French retirer, to pull (something) back -- as e.g. a general might do with troops that need to stop an attack. "tire" (verb) goes back to Old English tiorian, and its etymology before that is not known and in particular doesn't seem to come from French "tirer" or its Latin antecedents.