beard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The hair that grows on a man's chin and cheeks.

   He grew a thick beard over the winter.

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Simplified etymology

Beard is an Old English word of common Germanic stock and is related to Latin barba, also meaning “beard”; its deeper origin is unknown. The late Middle English verb beard developed the figurative sense “confront or defy.”

PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Cognates Cognate with Scots beird (“beard”), Yola bearde (“beard”), North Frisian biard (“beard”), Saterland Frisian Boart (“beard”), West Frisian burd (“beard”), Bavarian Bårt (“beard”), Dutch baard (“beard”), German Bart (“beard”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Baart (“beard”), Vilamovian biöt (“beard”), Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), Icelandic barð (“brim; edge, ridge”), Norwegian Bokmål bart…

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