Nochmals zu frz. braquemart ‘großes Messerʼ, ‘Hiebsäbelʼ

Dutch breecmes cannot be considered the etymon of French braquemart ‘large knife’, ‘cutting saber’, as it never actually existed in real language use. The attested forms bremes and bremessen must likewise be dismissed as potential etyma, since they fail to explain the full spectrum of braquemart variants and, crucially, appear much later than the French evidence. In light of both historical and linguistic findings, it rather emerges that Gottfried Baist’s earlier hypothesis is confirmed beyond doubt: the lexical field of braquemart goes back to Italian bergamasco (< Bergamo ) with subsequent remodeling of the suffix.