Why commute

Mid 15th century the word COMMUTE originated.

DICTIONARY:

To travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back: He commutes to    work by train.

To change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

 Etymological Dictionary

 

com-

word-forming element usually meaning "with, together," from Latin com, archaic form of classical Latin cum "together, together with, in combination," from PIE *kom- "beside, near, by, with" (cf. Old English ge-, German ge-). The prefix in Latin sometimes was used as an intensive.

 

mutable (adj.)

late 14c., "liable to change," from Latin mutabilis "changeable," from mutare "to change," from PIE root *mei- "to change, go, move" (cf. Sanskrit methati "changes, alternates, joins, meets;" Avestan mitho "perverted, false;" Hittite mutai- "be changed into;" Latin meare "to go, pass," migrare "to move from one place to another;" Old Church Slavonic mite "alternately;" Czech mijim "to go by, pass by," Polish mijać "avoid;" Gothic maidjan "to change"); with derivatives referring to the exchange of goods and services as regulated by custom or law (cf. Latin mutuus "done in exchange," munus "service performed for the community, duty, work").

Let just remember going to work on a bike is the best way to travel besides walking or swimming.
COM means to intensify and MUTE..... well I am just going to shut up.