brew
Bedeutung (English)
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- To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- To foment or prepare, as by brewing
- To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- (obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
Konzepte
Synonyms
make coffee
brew beer
make ready
become ripe
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/bɹuː/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley
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