🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Weizen

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Weizen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Wheat/wiːt/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #850 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Weizen wird zur Herstellung von Brot verwendet."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A widely cultivated cereal grass whose grain is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc.

    "The vast fields of golden wheat swayed gently in the summer breeze."
  2. 2

    The grain of this grass used as food.

    "Most commercial bread is primarily made from wheat flour."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'hwǣte', which comes from Proto-Germanic '*hwaitijaz', meaning 'white' (referring to the color of the grain or flour). It belongs to the broader Indo-European root '*kweyd-', denoting bright or white things, and has been a staple cereal crop in human agriculture since antiquity.

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