Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. · Naked, uncovered. · Having no supplies. · Having no decoration.
The surface, the (bare) skin. · Surface; body; substance. · That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Barely. · Very; significantly. · Without a condom.
From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).
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- Inherited-form mentionbareenm
- Inherited-form mentionbærang
- Inherited-form mention*baʀgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*bazazgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*bʰosósine-pro
- Cognate mentionbaresco
- Cognate mentionbarstq
- Cognate mentionbaarfy
- Cognate mentionbarnl
- Cognate mentionbarde
- Cognate mentionbarsv
- Cognate mentionberis
- Cognate mentionbasaslt
- Cognate mentionbosypl
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