Finagle this

We can learn from this word something about how our language has evolved.
finagle / fi-nay-gêl / verb, intransitive
To obtain by devious means, to get something by scheming.Linguist Robert Beard expounds: We know that this is a real English word because it has none of the Latin elements associated with so many English words, elements like -ment, -ation, and -ious. We may call someone caught