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Facet - guy / bloke / chap

One of the more tricksy facets of language learning is when you come across a false friend, a word that looks similar or identical to a word in your native language, but is not related to it at all.  Facet is such a word.  In English, facet means an aspect of something and is related to the word face .  The English word facetious is related to the Polish word facet .  They both come from the Latin facētus to mean courtly, elegant, witty or amusing.  Over time, in Polish, facet moved from being an elegant, courtly man to being a less noble and more colloquial term for a man.  Just some guy.  Tylko jakiś facet. - Kto to jest?    Who's that? - Nie wiem.  Jakiś facet.         Dunno.  Some guy.