Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. · To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. · To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water. · To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. · A serving of beer. · A cup of tea. · A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *brewwaną Proto-West Germanic *breuwan Old English brēowan Middle English brewen English brew From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbrewenenm
- Inherited-form mentionbrēowanang
- Inherited-form mention*breuwangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*brewwanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*bʰrewh₁-ine-pro
- Doublet mentionburnen
- Cognate mentionbrouwennl
- Cognate mentionbrauende
- Cognate mentionbryggasv
- Cognate mentionbryggenb
- Cognate mentionφρέαρgrc
- Cognate mentionferveola
- Cognate mentionbruthsga
- Cognate mentionभुर्वन्sa
- Cognate mentionbarleyen
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