köken: Borrowed from Lombardic melm or similar Germanic root, with meaning similar to Dutch melm (“dry earth”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malaną.
köken: From Middle Dutch bri, from Old Dutch *brī, from Proto-West Germanic *brīw, possibly from Proto-Germanic *brīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréy-u-s ~ *bʰr̥y-éw-s, from *bʰr-ey-, from *bʰer- (“to boil”), cognate with Latin frīgō (“to roast”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast”).
aile: balkenbrij, brijachtig, brijig, krentenbrij, krentjebrij, om de hete brij heen draaien, rijstebrij, woordenbrij