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BARM (a word common to Teutonic languages)

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

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

top of See also:

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 See also:

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 See also:

BREAD

bread, or to set up See also:

FERMENTATION

fermentation in liquor .

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