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the chosen family you'd take a bullet for and a punch from
means A bond of loyalty and kinship among people who treat each other as brothers, whether by blood, shared cause, or membership in a group.
from From Old English 'brōþor' (brother) plus the suffix '-hood,' itself from Old English '-hād,' meaning a state, rank, or condition — the same '-hood' that closes out 'childhood' and 'neighborhood.' So a brotherhood is, quite literally, 'the condition of being brothers,' a cousin of related Germanic forms like Old High German 'bruoder.' The word reaches back through Proto-Germanic to the deep Indo-European root 'bʰréh₂tēr,' one of the oldest and most stable kinship words humans have, echoed in Latin 'frater' and Sanskrit 'bhrātṛ.'
- word root
- "brother" traces to ancient Proto-Indo-European bhrater
- not blood
- fraternities, gangs, and armies forge it without DNA
- trauma bond
- shared hardship builds tighter loyalty than shared genes
- french motto
- fraternité is one-third of France's national ideal
- brotherhoods exist
- medieval guilds called themselves brotherhoods of craft
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