Looking ahead to 2026 I have to consider what is feasible. Oh, not in terms of actually getting things done, but in the etymology of the word. It has some interesting and relevant connections.
Feasible derives from the Latin "facere" meaning to Make, Do, or Perform. The same very utilitarian source gives us Factory and Manufacturing, the latter being to make something by hand "manum". Nowadays of course the hand is mostly used to click a mouse and push some buttons on the cnc equipment.
Doing things could also be considered a Feat, deriving again, from the same source.
I actually went down this etymological rabbit hole wondering if Fealty and Feasible were related. I mean, my dog Hank is stupefyingly loyal and would probably jump off a cliff if there was encouragement reinforced by an appropriate Dog Treat.
But no. Fealty derives from "fidelitatus" which means Faithful and as its most appropriate side branch gives us Fido as the archetypal dog name.
Feat and Feet are unrelated. Like most terms relating to very basic concepts the latter is a very old word and comes to us via shaggy Germanic barbarians rather than Romans with sandals on their "pedes".
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