Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*bʰrewh₁-
11 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-, most common first.
- brandA mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.
- brewTo make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- bourbonA whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
- brothWater in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.
- ferventVery hot; burning, scorching; also, glowing with heat.
- winterbourneA stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.
- barmyContaining, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”).
- brinyOf, relating to, resembling, or containing brine (“water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt”), such as seawater or tears; salty.
- embroilTo bring (something) into a state of confusion or uproar; to complicate, to confuse, to jumble.
- BorvoA Celtic god of healing associated with hot springs.
- defervesceTo experience an abatement or resolution of fever.