and thanks for showing my the true etymology. Super interesting.

Yeah, I tried to make that clear (but perhaps I did not) when I said the way I 'imagined' it which is useful as a strategy to employ, particularly as a second language learner.

The book I started learning Mandarin with [Tuttle] emphasizes this approach and I believe if you look at modern dictionaries today, the character does utilize those components from the 'field' radicle.