priest (n.) Old English preost probably shortened from the older Germanic form represented by Old Saxon and Old High German prestar, Old Frisian prestere, all from Vulgar Latin *prester "priest," from Late Latin presbyter ("presbyter, elder") from Greek presbyteros (see Presbyterian).
You Need an etymoligical dictionary!
And Protestants on FR (with several honorable exceptions) seem to know as little about actual paganism (or paganisms) as they do about Catholicism.
Again, backwards. All you are doing is demonstrating how a word came to exist in English.
The issue isn’t how we got the English word priest.
The issue is that it isn’t a NT office of the church.
God inspired the Greek words. What you call a priest isn’t a Christian concept in those inspired words.
Catholicism is a syncretism of parts of Christianity and paganism. Heck, there were pagan popes - another non-church office later added.