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The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*brōks“leggings, breeches, trousers”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*brāks
3. Transalpine Gaulish · derived from*brāca
4. Latin · derived frombrāca“pants”
5. Old Occitan · derived frombraga
6. Old French · derived frombrague“knickers, britches”
7. Old French · derived frombraguette“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”
8. Middle English · inherited from*braget
9. English todaybracket

From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).

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