## Etymology
From Old English bregdan ('to move quickly, weave, plait, braid'), from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną ('to make sudden jerky movements, weave'), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerēḱ- ('to gleam, flash').

## AI Etymology
Braid comes from Old English bregdan ('to move quickly, weave, plait, braid'), from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną ('to make sudden jerky movements, weave'), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerēḱ- ('to gleam, flash'). The historical trail runs through bregdan in Old English and *bregdaną in Proto-Germanic. Used as a noun and verb, braid now means "a length of interwoven strands; to weave such strands together", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as braided, braiding, and braider. The word is therefore part of the inherited Germanic layer of English, even where later usage has narrowed, broadened, or specialized the sense.

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