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broth

Pronunciation: /bɹɔθ/

The English word “broth” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.
  2. A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Etymology

From Middle English broth, from Old English broþ (“broth”), from Proto-West Germanic *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to seethe, roil, brew”). By surface analysis, brew + -th (abstract nominal suffix).

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