words wholly unrelated
babble & babel
the former means “to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly” and has been in the english language since the fourteenth century. the latter is the hebrew word for babylon—a mythical town (and tower) in the old testament where a confusion of language is said to have taken place. both words are pronounced the same and have overlapping definitions though no direct connexion can be traced.
