rennet

Significat (Anglès)

An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.

Sinònims

curd

junket

lab

curdled mild

Traduccions

présure

cuajo

Lab

stremsel

Labmagen

reinette

leb

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɹɛnɪt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: renet

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: rinsel

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: irennen

Cognat amb anglès antic: ġerennan

Cognat amb alemany: gerinnen

In summary

From Middle English rennet, from Old English *rynnet, *ġerynnet, from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu (“coagulation, curdling, rennet”), cognate with Old Saxon girunnida (“a running together, coagulation”), Old High German girunnida (“rennet, coagulation”), Middle High German gerinnede (“that which is curdled”).
Compare also Middle English renelesse, renels, renlys, rendlys (“rennet”), Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), Old High German girunst (“rennet”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).