diversion (tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action) · diversion (act of diverting) · red herring (a falsified or intentionally misleading clue)
köken: From Proto-Celtic *arwī (compare Welsh erw, Cornish erow), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃wos (“arable”) (compare Old Irish arbar, Latin arvus).
From Middle High German rein, which also appears in reinkurni, reinifano (“tansy”), Modern German Rainfarn, for this plant’s growing as field mark, from Old High German rein (“wall, baulk, ridge”), from Proto-West Germanic *rain, from Proto-Germanic *rainō. Cognate with Icelandic rein, Swedish ren, English rean (“ridge, furrow, gutter”), French rain, Lithuanian rai̇̃vė (“furrow”), Latvian riêva…