bad.
boat
Meaning & usage
boat
Where this word comes from
From Old English bāt.
plague, pestilence
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Celtic *batos (“death, pestilence”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷh₂-tó-s, from *gʷeh₂- (“to step, go”), with semantic shift "to go" > "to pass away" > "death".
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