[dheera]

Unfortunately, vocabulary in languages are defined, not derived.

Why isn't "business" a measure of how busy you are?

Why isn't "waterboarding" analogous to "snowboarding" and "sandboarding"?

(As an engineer I hate these peculiarities and I'm all for fixing them but the majority of the world tends to want to stick to the not-necessarily-logical definitions.)

[microcolonel]

Sure, I'm not saying everything has to make sense, but buddy here was claiming that 国 had cleaner etymology than 國, and to me it seems like one of these is indirect, and the other is very direct.