The word 'fairy' is related to 'infantry' and 'professor'. And that's not all: these words are also related to 'fate', 'fatal', 'fame', 'fable', and 'to confess'. They all come from Latin words derived from a stem meaning "to speak". Click the infographic to learn how:

I think a lot of Romance languages retain either fabulor or fabellor, more than just Iberian Romance—I know Sardinian has faeddhare

So a pro-fe-ssor is someone that is an expert in telling fables.So a pro-fe-ssor is someone that is an expert in telling fables.

Ik zie dat de biecht ook wat met fabels van doen had. Dat herinner ik me nog uit mijn jeugd. Je moest toch wat zeggen bij die maandelijkse (?) biechtexercitie.

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Would a Latin have recognised that fari, fama, and fabulis were related witds?

Zit je weer fabels te fabuleren? Zo wordt je nog professor!