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

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