#TIL about two #words that have sorta passed each other in opposite directions on their journey of #etymology.

#Cattle is from the same root as 'capital', and its rootwords originally meant 'wealth, money, property'. Then it narrowed to moveable property (ie, livestock), and then further to specifically bovine animals.

The rootwords of #pecuniary (from 'peku', meaning moveable property (ie, livestock)) narrowed to cattle (which equalled wealth), then on to 'money', then on to 'money-related'.