Why do all hypotheses of derivation converge so inevitably to one ultimate point?

All this blending could hardly fail to suggest a former material connection among allied forms, such as that which an hypothesis of derivation demands.

It is too early yet in the development of the feudal system to say that the derivation lines show the course of an absolute feudal tenure, and they are not meant for that purpose, but simply to indicate the succession of the inequalities of rank.

Wherefore also the peasants say vea for via, deriving their word for the road over which they haul from the name of the vehicle in which they do the hauling, vectura, and by the same derivation vella for villa, the farm house to and from which they haul.