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== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: brĕd, IPA(key): /bɹɛd/ (Early Modern) IPA(key): /brɛd/, /brɛːd/ Rhymes: -ɛd Homophone: bred === Etymology 1 === 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. 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 hlaf), a process which similarly occured in other languages such as German. ==== Alternative forms ==== breade (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads) (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. Hyponyms: tack, biscuit (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry. Coordinate terms: tack, biscuit Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. Synonym: staff of life (countable) Any variety of bread. (slang, US or Cockney) Money. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money ===== Usage notes ===== loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread. ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded) (transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs. ===== Derived terms ===== breaded (adjective) breading (noun) ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== loaf === Etymology 2 === 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”). ==== Noun ==== bread (plural breads) (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth. ===== Derived terms ===== waybread === Etymology 3 === Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”). ==== Alternative forms ==== breathe, brede ==== Verb ==== bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded) (transitive) To form in meshes; net. ==== Noun ==== bread (plural breads) A piece of embroidery; a braid. === References === === Anagrams === Debra, Bader, Aberd, Breda, bared, Debar, beard, arbed, ardeb, Beard, debar == Middle English == === Noun === bread (Early Middle English) alternative form of bred (“bread”) == North Frisian == === Alternative forms === briad (Föhr-Amrum) briid (Goesharde) briidj (Mooring) breeđ (Sylt) === Etymology === From Old Frisian brēd, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad, wide”). === Adjective === bread (Heligoland) wide == Old English == === Alternative forms === brēod === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bræ͜ɑːd/ Rhymes: -ēad === Noun === brēad n bit, piece, morsel, crumb bread (foodstuff) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (bread): hlāf ==== Derived terms ==== bēobrēad picgbrēad ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: bred, bredd, brede, breed, breede, breid, brid, bread, bræd (Early Middle English), bryad, bryead (Kent)English: bread (see there for further descendants)English: (West Yorkshire) breeadGeordie: breedScots: breidYola: breed == Spanish == === Verb === bread second-person plural imperative of brear