## Etymology
From bold + -ness. Bold descends from Old English bald, beald ('bold, brave'), from Proto-Germanic *balþaz ('bold'), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ('to swell, inflate').

## AI Etymology
Boldness is from bold + -ness. Bold descends from Old English bald, beald ('bold, brave'), from Proto-Germanic *balþaz ('bold'), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ('to swell, inflate'). Important recorded forms include bald (Old English), *balþaz (Proto-Germanic), and *bʰel- (Proto-Indo-European). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers the quality of being daring, confident, or fearless. The wider family includes related words such as bold, boldly, and embolden.

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