[Thaumatology] Divination as the Core of Magic

[ravenfish]

My tendency is just to accept that the meaning of words can change over time, and a word's meaning needn't strictly map to its etymological roots. The 'wer-' in 'werewolf' specifically means "male human" in Anglo-Saxon, but it would be silly to go around complaining that female wolf-shifters ought to be called wifwolves.