People often do not recognize shared etymological roots among similar English words such as “happy,” “hapless,” “happen,” and “perhaps” until they consult an etymology dictionary.

“We have all of these words in English that are very similar like happy versus hapless, happen,”

“perhaps and we never think about them unless you read an etymology dictionary and then like oh obviously these all come from some old root that has to mean luck or occurrence or something like that. So like it”