bread
SubstantivVerbSubstantivVerbSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen
- Kanada//bɹɛd//
- //brɛd//
- //brɛːd//
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Substantiv
- 1
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- 2
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
My mother used to send me for the bread.
Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- 3
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Give us this day our daily bread.
- 4
Any variety of bread.
Some breads are harder and drier than others.
- 5
SlangMoney.
Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.
[…] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"
Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.? Proto-Germanic *braudą Proto-West Germanic *braud Old English brēad Middle English bred English bread From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Possibly a doublet of broa. Cognates Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Yola breed (“bread”), North Frisian bruad, Bruar, brüüdj (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brood (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Alemannic German brot, broud, bruat, bròt, bröt (“bread”), Cimbrian proat, pròat (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), German Low German Brod, Brood, Broot, Brot, Bräot (“bread”), Limburgish broed (“bread”), Luxembourgish Brout (“bread”), Mòcheno proat (“bread”), Vilamovian brūt (“bread; loaf”), Yiddish ברויט (broyt, “bread”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål brød (“bread”), Elfdalian broð (“bread”), Faroese breyð (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Norn brau, brow (“bread”), Norwegian Nynorsk braud, brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Crimean Gothic broe (“bread”); also Cornish brys (“thought; mind”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic beir (“bear, give birth to”), Welsh bryd (“aim, intent”), Latin fors (“chance, luck”), Greek φέρνω (férno), φέρω (féro, “to bear, carry”), Albanian brydh (“to ripen, soften; to crumble”), Latvian bērt (“to pour; to scatter, strew”), Lithuanian berti (“to scatter, strew”), Belarusian бру́ха (brúxa, “belly”), Czech břich, břicho, břuch (“belly”), Kashubian brzëch (“belly”), Polish brzuch, brzucho (“belly”), Russian брю́хо (brjúxo, “belly”), Slovak brucho (“belly”), Armenian բերել (berel, “to bring, fetch”), Persian بردن (bordan/burdan, “to bear, carry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B pär- (“to bear; to wear”), Sanskrit भारयति (bhārayati, “to carry”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”). In this sense, mostly replaced loaf, which had been the more common term in Old English (see hlāf), a process which similarly occured in other languages such as German.
Verb
- 1
To coat with breadcrumbs.
breaded fish
Substantiv
- 1
veraltetBreadth.
Herkunft
From Middle English brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).
Verb
- 1
To form in meshes; net.
Herkunft
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
Substantiv
- 1
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Formen
- Plural
- breads
- Präteritum
- breaded
- Partizip II
- breaded
- Partizip I
- breading
- 3. Person Singular
- breads
bread · A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
break · To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by…break-in · The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or…breakdown · A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.