Etymology

barmed

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Middle English *bermed ← Old English ġebeormad
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromġebeormad“leavened”
  2. Middle English · inherited from*bermed
  3. English todaybarmed

From Middle English *bermed (found in unbermed (“unfermented; unleavened”)), from Old English ġebeormad (“leavened”), equivalent to barm + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.