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eldin raigmore

Are "apse" and "lapse" etymologically related words?
(maybe by "deep" etymology?)

If so, how?

If not, how not?
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Kiri · Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Posts: 471 Location: Latvia/Italy

For what it's worth, here's what the good people on Wiktionary.org say:

apse:
via Latin apsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsis, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (haptō, “I bind, join”)

lapse:
from Middle French laps, from Latin lapsus, from labi (“to slip”)

eldin raigmore · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 11:59 pm Post subject:

so, no.
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Kiri · Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Posts: 471 Location: Latvia/Italy

or so it seems.