Etymograph

English

rennet

Rennet comes from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu ‘coagulation, curdling, rennet’.

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*garunniþu‘coagulation, curdling, rennet’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150*rynnetreconstructed
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rennet
  4. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*garunniþu‘coagulation, curdling, rennet’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150*rynnetreconstructed
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rennet
  4. Englishtodaysame form

Every English word from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu

Today it means

noun An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.

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Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu / rennet

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