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> but its original meaning was much broader (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/d...)

Is it really that broad? There are many examples, but none really deviates from "good". In pretty much everyone of them, I could just use "good" and it would work OK.

The only reference to "dobry" meaning "brave" is this:

> Cognate with Latvian dabravecis (“brave, prudent man”).

But Czech was likely not heavily influenced by Latvian.

Honestly, I think people should just stop assuming that if word X means Y in a Slavic language A, that it should have the same meaning in a Slavic language B. I see these kind of broken assumptions very often, but there are way too many false friends for this to work.



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