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ash bread

noun

Etymology

From ash + bread.

  1. derived from *bʰera-✻ — “to split, beat, hew, struggle”
  2. inherited from *braudaz✻
  3. derived from *bʰrewh₁-✻ — “to boil; to brew”
  4. inherited from *braudą✻ — “bread”
  5. inherited from *braud✻
  6. inherited from brēad — “fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”
  7. inherited from bred
  8. compounded as ash bread — “ash + bread”

Definitions

  1. Bread (sometimes specifically cornbread) baked in hot ashes.

    • […] either lime water or other sodium solutions, which is exactly what Native Americans did in making hominy or ash breads wherever maize was their mainstay.

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