That's what I thought about while watching PBS Space Time's video (linked through 'the main word' below):
The word “Entanglement” is built on words that mean “a Snarl of |Thread, |Seaweed (as it usually |Wraps itself around Fish, Nets & |Oars).”
The word "Tang" is built on words that mean "|Serpent's Tongue (thought to be an Organ that |Stings), |Extension of a |Metal |Blade (reminding me of when Will Turner (Jr.) referred to the 'Tang' of the blade of a sword he helped forge*), |Spit of |Land, |Pointed-|End by which a blade is driven into a |Handle, |Bite" (|Sharp |Taste (another possible reason for the name of the breakfast-drink that the astronauts made famous), |Suggestion, |Taste, Spiny fish).
... But I'm still searching—You know anything about how this word developed into 'meaning something different from the meanings traced above'? Comment below!
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*Orlando Bloom's actions (as he's delivering the lines of Will Turner (Jr.)) imply that 'tang' means something-like "the Sword's Center-of-Balance," but the words themselves–"the tang is near full-width of the blade"–belies 'the actual meaning the writers meant'—the blade-metal within the sword's handle.
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