I love this kind of thing. When I was in college, one of the assignments in an English class was to research a word. They passed out slips of paper, and everyone had their own word. Etymology.
I don’t remember what word I researched, but I recall it was a lot of fun, and very interesting.
It is the only time I seriously got to use that big, thick dictionary (about 8-12” thick) the Oxford English Dictionary, I think...the ones on the fixed stand in the library!
I have that dictionary in storage.