bhrēu-2, bhrū- — bhrēu 2, bhrū English meaning: edge Deutsche Übersetzung: “Kante, scharfer Rand” Note: The group is extended from bher ‘stand up; edge”. Material: O.Ir. brū “edge, bank, border, shore”, bruach ds. (*brū üko ); O.Ice. brūn… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
bhreu-s-2 — bhreu s 2 English meaning: to break Deutsche Übersetzung: “zerbrechen, zerschlagen, zerkrũmeln under likewise” Note: extension from bhrē̆ u 1. Material: Alb. breshën, breshër “hail”, if eig. “granule, mica” (e = IE eu); Lat.… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
bhreu- — Also bhreuə , bhreəu . To boil, bubble, effervesce, burn; with derivatives referring to cooking and brewing. Oldest form *bhreuə₁ . Derivatives include brew, bread, broth, brood, breed, ferment, and fervent … Universalium
bhrē̆ u-1, bhrū̆ - — bhrē̆ u 1, bhrū̆ English meaning: to pierce, break Deutsche Übersetzung: “with scharfem Werkzeug schneiden, abschaben etc”, especially Gmc. “zerschlagen, brechen” Note: extension from bher Material: O.Ind. bhrūṇ a m “embryo”… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
bhreus-3, bhrū̆ s- — bhreus 3, bhrū̆ s English meaning: to boil; to sound, etc. Deutsche Übersetzung: “brausen, wallen, rauschen, hervorquellen or sprießen, sich bauschen, Bũschel, Gestrũpp under likewise” Note: esp. in Gmc. words; perhaps to bhreu… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
bh(e)reu- : bh(e)rū̆ - — bh(e)reu : bh(e)rū̆ English meaning: to boil, to be wild Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘sich heftig bewegen, wallen, especially vom Aufbrausen beim Gären, Brauen, Kochen etc” Note: extension from bher 2. Material: A. ablaut bheru… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
bherǝk̂ -, bhrēk̂ - — bherǝk̂ , bhrēk̂ English meaning: to shine Deutsche Übersetzung: “glänzen” Note: equivalent with bherǝĝ , bhrēĝ ds. (see there, also because of ambiguous words) Material: O.Ind. bhrü s atē “blazes, shines” (uncovered); Gk.… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
brew — [OE] The ancestral meaning of brew has basically to do with ‘heat’. It comes from an Indo European base *bhreu or *bhru, which is also the source of Latin fervēre ‘boil’, from which we get fervent, ferment, and the second syllable of comfrey.… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
broth — [OE] Broth comes ultimately from the Indo European base *bhreu or *bhru ‘heat, boil’, which also produced brew and fervent. Etymologically, therefore, it means ‘liquid in which something has been boiled’. The notion of ‘heating’ has now… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
fervent — [14] Fervent comes from the present participle of Latin fervēre ‘boil’. This verb also produced English effervescent [17] and comfrey [15], a plant name which means literally ‘boil together’, and moreover its derivative fermentum led to English… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
