Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. · A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families. · Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) · A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
To ferment. · To rise. · To exaggerate.
From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).
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- Inherited-form mentionyestenm
- Inherited-form mentionġistang
- Inherited-form mention*jestugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*jestuzgem-pro
- Cognate mentionJääststq · yeast
- Cognate mentiongêstfy
- Cognate mentiongistnl · yeast
- Cognate mentionGischtde · sea foam
- Cognate mentionjästsv · yeast
- Cognate mentionjestno · yeast
- Cognate mentionjösturis · yeast
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