2/ the back story is that (apparently) many groups had superstitions in the direction of "speak of the devil [ and summon him ]" re bears, so they used euphemisms like "the brown one". so most modern Germanic derived languages have a word for "bear" that is based in a euphemism
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4/ the English word "bear" https://www.etymonline.com/word/bear#etymonline_v_8204 … > "large carnivorous or omnivorous mammal of the family Ursidae," Old English bera "a bear," from Proto-Germanic *bero, literally "the brown (one)"
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