Thanks Raddy, yes we have used that one (etymonline) but for 'bad' it sounded like they didn't really have an answer - 'good' has much more traceable roots, apparently. (Great site, great info, nonetheless!)
Kind of exciting, really:
Bad - 1203, mystery word, no apparent relatives in other languages...
I was interested to see they say Farsi has essentially the same word (same sound/same meaning) and the dating of 'bad' in english is around the time of the crusades, so that just has me wondering, but it sounds like linguists call it a pure coincidence.
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