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bareEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bareEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English baren, from Old English barian, from Proto-Germanic *bazōną (“to bare, make bare”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bareEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024- BareMiddle English · word_bare_sb_1
Bare, sb. bier, S; see Beere.
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Bare, sb. a wave, billow, NED, S2 (8b. 38); beres, pl., NED; bieres, MD; beares, MD.—Icel. bára.
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Bare, sb. boar, S2; see Boor.
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Bare, adj. bare, simple, single, sheer, S, C; bair, bare, worn alone, S3. Comb.: baruot, barefoot, S.
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Bare, sb. the open country, S; naked skin, W.
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Does the contrast miscais prove that bare cais originally meant love?
No. The contrast is evidence that some contexts oppose the forms, but prefixal morphology and a translated contrast do not by themselves recover the oldest sense of bare cais.
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Is the Devil the central current meaning of fiende?
No. SO defines an opponent prepared to harm a counterpart and supplies ordinary, military, figurative, and natural-enemy uses. SAOB marks the older Devil use as barely current by 1924.
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