"Begging the question" to someone with no sense of its etymology just sounds like it should mean "necessitates the asking of a question" or "makes clear a quest

"Begging the question" to someone with no sense of its etymology just sounds like it should mean "necessitates the asking of a question" or "makes clear a question" as opposed to "attempting to prove something whilst taking its truth for granted". I'd imagine that we come to know the meaning of >99% of words and expressions through usage, so it feels like a fairly expected -- and reasonable, yet wrong -- outcome.