Apology: away+ speech. Speech toward what is away… toward what has become away?… in response to becoming away?
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.(denoting a formal defense against an accusation): from French apologie, or via late Latin from Greek apologia ‘a speech in one’s own defense,’ from apo ‘away’ + -logia.
The more the relationship between etymology of a word and the structure of it’s (inter)dependent concepts is explored, the more explicit the meaninglessness of it’s present, contemporary implementations seems to become.
The more this outcome presents itself as the outcome of such detective work.
I have a deep desire to understand however, if this detective work might not contribute to the outcome in some respect.
I don’t know why but I sense it is more perhaps than it seems.
Etymologies show us how meanings of words retain something while losing something. Regrounding words in their older meanings sometimes opens the older meaning up and reveals some of what has been lost and how our conceptions and vocabulary have bent themselves around the impoverished words.