bræð

odor, exhalation, vapor

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Woman calmly inhales then exhales illustrated as two adjacent matching half-figure poses of SAME woman, first chest expanded with small inward curved arrow near nose, second chest relaxed with outward breath curl.

verb

breathe

BREETH/briːð/

To take air in and let it out.

Etymology

breatheOld Englishodor, exhalation, vapor

The ancestor bræð meant odor, exhalation, or vapor and became the noun breath. Breathe was formed from that noun to name the action of drawing lung air in and letting it out.

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