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JeffA2
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Thanks. I wasn't sure if maybe this is one of those words that resists mutation, like braf.
As well as meaning "courageous, "brave" often had the meaning of "fine, splendid" in older English, e.g. Shakespeare's "brave new world". This meaning, which was imported into Welsh, is still found in some expressions in modern English. It is also quite a common meaning in modern French. As well as in the Scottish "braw". The dictionaries say this word came into French from old Spanish or Italian. I don't know when and where the extra meaning of "fine, excellent, etc." developed. It certainly originally meant "wild" (hence "courageous") from Latin "barbarus".