Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain. · To become malt. · To drink malt liquor.
Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. · Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. · A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. · Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “tender; young”), Russian молодой (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian мо́лот (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Derivation mentionmaltenm
- Derivation mentionmealtang
- Derivation mention*maltgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*maltągem-pro
- Derivation mention*meld-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionMoaltstq
- Cognate mentionmoutnl
- Cognate mentionMalzde
- Cognate mentionmaltsv
- Cognate mentionмладъcu
- Cognate mentionмолодойru
- Cognate mentionмо́лотuk
- Cognate mentionmlátocs
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