different between bread vs bannock

English

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Pronunciation

• (General Australian) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/, /b?e?d/
• (UK, US) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: bred

Etymology 1

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English br?ad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braud? (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erw-, *b?rew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?era- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two.

Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”).

Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).

Noun

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

1. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
3. (slang, US) Money.
4. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Usage notes

• loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.

Synonyms

• (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: brede
• ? Fiji Hindi: bareed

Translations

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

Derived terms

• breaded (adjective)
• breading (noun)

Translations

See also

• loaf

Etymology 2

From Middle English brede, from Old English br?du (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braid?? (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

Derived terms

• waybread

Etymology 3

From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijan? (“to make broad, broaden”).

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.

References

Etymology 4

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, bre?dan (“to braid”).

Alternative forms

• breathe, brede

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Anagrams

• Bader, Beard, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, debar

Old English

Alternative forms

• br?od

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braud?, whence also Old Frisian br?d (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon br?d (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German br?t (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bræ???d/

Noun

br?ad n (nominative plural br?adru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)

1. bit, piece, morsel, crumb
2. bread (foodstuff)

Declension

Synonyms

• (bread): hl?f

Derived terms

• b?obr?ad
• picgbr?ad

Descendants

• Middle English: bred, brede, breed, brid, bread, bræd
  • English: bread
    • Sranan Tongo: brede
    • ? Fiji Hindi: bareed
  • Scots: breid
  • Yola: breed

Spanish

Verb

bread

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.

English

Alternative forms

• bannik

Etymology

From Old English bannuc, Gaelic bannach. Doublet of bonnag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ.n?k/

Noun

bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)

1. (especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
   • 1894, Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, D. Nutt, The Wee Bannock:

     So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.

2. (Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
   • 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, ?ISBN, p. 54,

     My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.

Translations

Derived terms

• currant-bannock
• bannock puncher

Related terms

• frybread, dog bread (US terms for specific breads which would all be called bannock in Canada)

Anagrams

• nonback