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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 407 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BARM (a word common to Teutonic languages)

BARM (a word
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COMMON
common to
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TEUTONIC
TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
Teutonic
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LANGUAGES
languages) , the scum formed on the

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TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of

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MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt liquor when fermenting; yeast used to

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LEAVEN (in Mid. Eng. levain, adapted from Fr. levain, in same sense, from Lat. levamen, which is only found in the sense of alleviation, comfort, levare, to lift up)

leaven

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BREAD

bread, or to set up

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FERMENTATION

fermentation in liquor .

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