*baraz

From a Proto-Indo-European s-stem *bʰars- ~ *bʰors- ~ *bʰor-es-, from root *bʰers- (‘tip, bristle; pointy, prickly’). Cognate with Latin far (‘emmer; grits’) and fārīna (‘flour’), Faliscan 𐌅𐌀𐌓 (far, ‘emmer wheat’), Proto-Slavic *boršьno (‘flour’), Old Irish bairgen (‘bread, loaf’), Welsh bara (‘bread’), Breton bara (‘bread’), Old Cornish bara, Albanian bar (‘grass’), Proto-Slavic *bъrъ (‘foxtail millet’) and perhaps Latvian barĩba (‘food’). Related to *barsaz (‘perch (fish)’), *burstiz, (‘bristle’).