I'm sorry to say that but its not true
The original sense of
news was new things. This is long obsolete. Since the 15th century it has been used to mean
tidings the report of recent events, new occurrences as a subject or report or talk.
The adjective
new goes back to Old English.
Family
original meaning — ‘house full of slaves’
In Latin, familia began as a collective noun meaning ‘all the slaves belonging to one master’ based on a common Latin word for slave-servant, famulus.