brood
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From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)
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brood (not comparable)
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brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)
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From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *brōt, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.
brood (plural brode)
From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *brōt, from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.
brood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)
From Old English brād, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.
brood
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