Breath Definition
- breathing time
- breathing-spell
- breathing-place
- breather
- breathing-space
- intimation
- hint
- whiffet
- wind
- whiff
- vapor
- utterance
- smell
- polypnea
- pneuma
Other Word Forms of Breath
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Breath
Origin of Breath
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From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþiz (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrē-t- (“exhalation from heat; steam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to seethe, toss about, cook”). Cognate with Scots breth, breith (“breath”), German Brodem (“steam, vapour, fume, odour”). Related also to Icelandic bráður (“hasty, hurried, excited, rash”). More at brath.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English breth from Old English brǣth gwhrē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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