Broil Definition

Origin of Broil

• From Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *brod (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhreue-, *bherw-, *bhrew- (“to heat, boil, brew”). Cognate with Old High German brod (“broth”), Old English broþ (“broth”). More at broth.

  From Wiktionary

• From Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”) and Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of Old French bruir (“to burn”), of Germanic origin; and Old French usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulāre (“to scorch”).

  From Wiktionary

• Old French bruir (“to burn”) comes from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”), from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną (“to brew”), from Proto-Indo-European *bherw-, *bhrew- (“to boil, seethe”), and is cognate with Middle High German brüejen (“to singe, burn, scald”), Middle Dutch broeyen (“to scald, heat”). More at brew.

  From Wiktionary

• From obsolete broil to brawl from Middle English broilen from Anglo-Norman broiller to mix up, confuse from Old French brouiller from breu broth, brew from Vulgar Latin brodum of Germanic origin bhreu- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English broilen from Old French brusler, bruler perhaps from usler to burn (with br- from bruir to burn) from Latin ustulāre to scorch from ustus past participle of ūrere to burn

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition