Hmm...

[sleigh]

WHile doing my usual morning news browsing, I ran across this headline on the newsfeed for CNN: "NY TV station founder beheads wife." Not a headline I usually care about (nor a story I clicked on to read), but...

I found that the word "behead" bothered me. Shouldn't that be "dehead"? I mean, we use the prefic "de-" to indicate we're getting rid of something, as in "deveining" a shrimp... So why do we "be-head" someone rather than "de-head" someone?

Just wondering...