beard n. probably from proto-indo-european bhar-dha, which begat the germanic offshoots of west germanic barthaz and latin barba (see also: barber; consider also: barbarian (from latin barbarus)).
the interesting thing is that all of these words aren't composites of other words, with roots and prefixes and such - beard is such a basic, close-to-nature thing that it is very fully its own word.
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