“The Online Etymology Dictionary says "To make money "earn pay" is first attested 1457." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=moneyIn French you don't say "loot" but "gain". I guess you can say the two terms are similar, but it's a bit of a leading interpretation. In Japanese there are a couple of characters 儲 which is related to storing and saving, and 稼 which is related to cultivating grain. Folk etymology can be interesting as a way of kicking around ideas, but it's not a good idea to take too much significance from it, because it's often vague and ambiguous so you can just bend it around to fit whatever theory you have.
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