--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Fatula <fatula3@A...> wrote:
> Not necessarily. To consider Garth's example, "hussy", it
originally came
> from "huswif" (or something like that), literally "house-wife". The
word
> changed meaning despite the fact that the roots didn't. So the
meaning of a
> compound can be independant of the roots.
>
> Hopefully someone else can think of a better example.
I know people who would swear up and down that their churches have
"elders" or "presbyters" but ABSOLUTELY NO "priests" at all.