bizarre

The story

1. Basque · derived frombizar
2. Italian · derived frombizzarro“weird, eccentric, frisky”
3. French · borrowed frombizarre“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”
4. English todaybizarre

Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar (literally “beard”, from the notion that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French).

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