Werewolves are common hirsute horror antagonists, which is fitting (unlike a werewolf's clothes) since the word hirsute and the word horror share etymological roots.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the Renaissance fanboys also wanted to change the spellings of existing English words to pay tribute to their etymological roots.
It's important to stress the sort of etymological point because sometimes people confuse schizophrenia with something--with split personality and they somehow think schizophrenia refers to having multiple personalities.
In fact, that's where the word “month” comes from; “month” and “Moon” are cognates, words that have similar etymological histories, and in most languages, including English, the two words are very similar.
But, before we get into the different ways that " dog" has shifted, we first have to figure out where the word even came from, as that is a bit of an etymological mystery.
If feeling that " of obscure origin" is the best we can do for copacetic, take a look at the long etymological note at the entry for copacetic at mariam-webster.com for a discussion of the word's history.
Its cause was not helped by examples such the " p" which was added to the start of ptarmigan with no etymological justification whatsoever other than the fact that the Greek word for feather, ptera, started with a " p" .