From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!karn
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: An interesting word derivation
Article-I.D.: eagle.815
Posted: Mon Mar  7 20:40:27 1983
Received: Tue Mar  8 04:06:17 1983

I came across an interesting etymology for a word most of us are
familiar with: "cretin".  Its from the Latin for "Christian", via
a French dialect.

Interesting.  I wonder how many other common words have such interesting
roots.