köken: From Old French brief, from Latin brevis. A folk etymology derives it as an acronym of Bon, Revenons-En aux Faits, but this is completely inaccurate.
aile: dans les plus brefs délais, en bref
Il lui envoya un bref message de quelques lignes seulement.
elusive (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance) · elusive (difficult to describe)
köken: From Latin ēlūsus + -ivo, from the perfect passive participle of ēlūdō (“to deceive, to escape”). Possibly a loan from English elusive or French élusif, themselves derived from Latin.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hämärä, derived from a root hämä-, which may be possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Icelandic sámur). Related to Estonian hämar, Karelian hämärä, Livonian ämār, Veps hämär and Votic hämäre.
köken: Etymology tree Latin nōn Old French ne Middle French ne French nebor. Polish niebor. Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne Proto-Slavic *ne Russian не (ne)bor. Esperanto ne Esperanto ne- Esperanto kapti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -ablebor. ▲ Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French…