būreej

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bread, from Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrew- (“to boil, seethe”).

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pˠɯrˠɛːtʲ], (enunciated) [pˠɯrˠɛɛtʲ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pˠirˠɛjɛtʲ/
  • Bender phonemes: {bireyej}

Noun

būreej

  1. a biscuit
  2. a cracker

Synonyms

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.