bread – English noun declension

English noun forms of bread

Noun: bread
Singularbread
Pluralbreads

Sample Sentences

  • We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
  • My mother used to send me for the bread.
  • Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Give us this day our daily bread. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:11:]
  • Some breads are harder and drier than others.
  • Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare. [1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, pages 3–4:]
  • […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA. [1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals:]
  • And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?" [1973, Billy Joel, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:]
  • Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread. [2000, Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Tyrone:]
  • Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it. [2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *braudą
4. Proto-West Germanic *braud
5. Old English brēad
6. Middle English bred
7. English bread
8. 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.
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Yola breed (“bread”), North Frisian bruad, Bruar, brüüdj (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brood (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Alemannic German brot, broud, bruat, bròt, bröt (“bread”), Cimbrian proat, pròat (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), German Low German Brod, Brood, Broot, Brot, Bräot (“bread”), Limburgish broed (“bread”), Luxembourgish Brout (“bread”), Mòcheno proat (“bread”), Vilamovian brūt (“bread; loaf”), Yiddish ברויט (broyt, “bread”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål brød (“bread”), Elfdalian broð (“bread”), Faroese breyð (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Norn brau, brow (“bread”), Norwegian Nynorsk braud, brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Crimean Gothic broe (“bread”); also Cornish brys (“thought; mind”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic beir (“bear, give birth to”), Welsh bryd (“aim, intent”), Latin fors (“chance, luck”), Greek φέρνω (férno), φέρω (féro, “to bear, carry”), Albanian brydh (“to ripen, soften; to crumble”), Latvian bērt (“to pour; to scatter, strew”), Lithuanian berti (“to scatter, strew”), Belarusian бру́ха (brúxa, “belly”), Czech břich, břicho, břuch (“belly”), Kashubian brzëch (“belly”), Polish brzuch, brzucho (“belly”), Russian брю́хо (brjúxo, “belly”), Slovak brucho (“belly”), Armenian բերել (berel, “to bring, fetch”), Persian بردن (bordan/burdan, “to bear, carry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B pär- (“to bear; to wear”), Sanskrit भारयति (bhārayati, “to carry”).
11. 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 hlāf), a process which similarly occured in other languages such as German. See: Middle English Nouns 'bred', Dutch Nouns 'brood', German Nouns 'Brot', Faroese Nouns 'breyð', Icelandic Nouns 'brauð', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'braud', Swedish Nouns 'bröd', Latin Nouns 'fors', Czech Nouns 'břich', Polish Nouns 'brzuch', Slovak Nouns 'brucho'.

Verbs referencing "bread"

Danish Nouns brød, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns brød, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns brød, Icelandic Nouns brauð, Old Norse Nouns brauð, Swedish Nouns bröd, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns braud.