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laverbread

noun
/ˈlɑːvə(ɹ)ˌbɹɛd/

Etymology

From laver + 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 laverbread — “laver + bread”

Definitions

  1. A traditional Welsh delicacy of boiled laver, coated with oatmeal and fried.

  2. Porphyra umbilicalis, a red alga, one kind of laver.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA