breed

breed: \ \ [OE] The Old English verb brēdan came from West Germanic *brōdjan, a derivative of *brōd-, which produced brood. This in turn was based on *brō-, whose ultimate source was the Indo-European base *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (its other English descendants include braise, breath, and probably brawn). The underlying notion of breed is thus not ‘reproduction’ so much as ‘incubation, the warmth which promotes hatching’.

\ \ Cf.⇒ BRAISE, BRAWN, BREATH, BROOD

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Bring forth, bear, conceive and bring to birth, beget, produce, engender, Bring forth young, produce off-spring / Nourish, nurture, foster, bring up, rear, raise, Be born, be produced, have birth, arise, take rise, grow, develop / Discipline, educate, instruct, train, teach, school, bring up, nurture, rear, Raise live-stock, engage in breeding, Race (of animals), lineage, pedigree, progeny, stock, family, line, extraction, strain / Originate, occasion, beget, produce, engender, generate, be the occasion of, give rise to, be the cause of

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