{"id":1140,"date":"2021-04-25T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:33:02","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-6-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 6 &#8211; Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 6 &amp;#8211; Bread\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-25T13:19:46+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"On today\u2019s adventure we are looking at the origins of the word bread, which comes from the Middle English word bre(e)d [br\u025b\u02d0d] (bread, pastry, food, nourishment), from the Old English br\u0113ad [br\u00e6\u035c\u0251\u02d0d] (bit, piece, morsel, crumb, bread). from the Proto...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2141\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1140-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1140-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"bread.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>On today\u2019s adventure we are looking at the origins of the word bread, which comes from the Middle English word <em>bre(e)d<\/em> [br\u025b\u02d0d] (bread, pastry, food, nourishment), from the Old English <em>br\u0113ad<\/em> [br\u00e6\u035c\u0251\u02d0d] (bit, piece, morsel, crumb, bread). from the Proto-Germanic <em>*braud\u0105<\/em> [\u02c8br\u0251u\u032f.\u00f0\u0251\u0303] (fragment, piece, bread), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*b\u02b0rew(h\u2081-)<\/em> (to boil, seethe) and Proto-Indo-European *b\u02b0era- (to cut, scratch, split, rub) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bread#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/various\/bread.jpg\" alt=\"bread\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n<p>A more common Old English word for bread, and loaf, was <em>hl\u0101f<\/em> [xl\u0251\u02d0f], which became loaf in modern English. The word <strong>lord<\/strong> is related as it comes from <em>hl\u0101fweard\/hl\u0101ford<\/em> [\u02c8xl\u0251\u02d0f\u02ccw\u00e6\u035c\u0251rd\/\u02c8l\u0325\u0251\u02d0.vor\u02e0d] (\u201cbread guard\u201d), as is the word <strong>lady<\/strong>, which comes from <em>hl\u00e6fdige<\/em> [\u02c8l\u0325\u00e6\u02d0v\u02ccdi\u02d0.je] (\u201cbread kneader\u201d) [<a href=\">source].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same root include <strong>brew<\/strong>, <strong>broth<\/strong> and words for bread in other Germanic languages [<a href=\" https:=\"\" en.wiktionary.org=\"\" wiki=\"\" brew#english\"=\"\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Sources: https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bread#English<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/loaf#English<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/brew#English<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OJbf9O0eHrI\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJbf9O0eHrI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video made with <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37vAg5P\">Doodly<\/a> &#8211; an easy-to-use animated video creator [affiliate link].<\/p>\n<p>I also write about etymology on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/\">Omniglot Blog<\/a>, and I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/04\/24\/bread\/\">Celitc words for bread<\/a> on Celtiadur this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 6 &amp;#8211; Bread\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-25T13:19:46+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"On today\u2019s adventure we are looking at the origins of the word bread, which comes from the Middle English word bre(e)d [br\u025b\u02d0d] (bread, pastry, food, nourishment), from the Old English br\u0113ad [br\u00e6\u035c\u0251\u02d0d] (bit, piece, morsel, crumb, bread). from the Proto...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2142\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1140-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1140-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/bread.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"bread.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>On today\u2019s adventure we are looking at the origins of the word bread, which comes from the Middle English word bre(e)d [br\u025b\u02d0d] (bread, pastry, food, nourishment), from the Old English br\u0113ad [br\u00e6\u035c\u0251\u02d0d] (bit, piece, morsel, crumb, bread). from the Proto-Germanic *braud\u0105 [\u02c8br\u0251u\u032f.\u00f0\u0251\u0303] (fragment, piece, bread), from the Proto-Indo-European *b\u02b0rew(h\u2081-) (to boil, seethe) and Proto-Indo-European *b\u02b0era- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,56,4,58,11,55,1,57,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-middle-english","category-music","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}