Does the words prisoners and parishioners stem from the same word?

Question

I have just had a spell check prisioners and it came up with the word parishioners (prisioner's of a village) perhaps and I wondered if there was a link.

Answer 1

Both words have entirely different roots.

Prison/ prisoner:
The word prison can be traced back to the Latin word prēnsiō, “the action or power of making an arrest.” This in turn is derived from the verb prehendere or prēndere, which meant “to take hold of, take into custody, arrest.” Prēnsiō then surfaces in the Old French of the 12th century with the form prison and the senses “capture” and “place of imprisonment.” This new sense could have already been developed in Latin and not been recorded, but we have to wait until the 12th century to see it, the sense “captivity” being added in the same century. From Old French as well as the Medieval Latin word priso, “prison,” derived from Old French, came our Middle English word prisoun, first recorded in a work written before 1121 in the sense “imprisonment.” The sense “place of imprisonment” is recorded shortly afterward in a text copied down before 1225 but perhaps actually written in the Old English period before the Norman Conquest.

Parishioner:
It is a derivation from parishon: parishioner in Middle English and parochien, itself derived from parroche: parish in Old French. Before that from Late Latin parochia, diocese, alteration of paroecia, from Late Greek paroikiā, from Greek, a sojourning, from paroikos, neighbouring, neighbour, sojourner : para-, near; see para–1 + oikos, house.

Answer 2

No, it's just that you put io after the s and confused your spell check.

Parish and prison, your root words, are not related.

Answer 3

I think it may have a little to do with how boring the minister/priest is on any given Sunday.

Answer 4

no link whatsoever

Answer 5

No, not at the least

Answer 6

no