1/7/2023 0 Comments Brave brave in spanish![]() The problems facing Romance etymologists are, in principle, not different from those familiar to students of Germanic, except that the Romance languages go back to Latin, while Proto-Germanic is a reconstructed language. My most successful inroad on this area was probably an essay on bigot, but only because I discovered a review of which no one seems to be aware. Whenever I do it, I feel out of my element and indulge in a goodly amount of hedging. Romance etymology is not my turf, though from time to time I discuss English words of French origin. Today I am returning to brave, a better-informed and more cautious man. ![]() My comment brought forward a counter-comment by Peter Maher and resulted in an exchange of many letters between us, so that this post owes its appearance to him. One of the minor questions addressed in my latest “gleanings” concerned the origin of the adjective brave.
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