Unbeknownst

"Unbeknownst" looks really bizarre if you look at it long enough. It looks like a word from Uzbekistan or something. Not that words in the Uzbek language are bizarre or anything. Just very foreign to the eye of one who doesn't recognize the language. Gosh, um, what I mean to say is... [fumble, fumble, cough, cough].... "Unbeknownst" just looks really strange to me when I stare at it.