An archaic or dialectal shortening of 'broth', or a variant used in specific regional contexts.
A shortened form of 'broth' from Old English 'broþ', which comes from Proto-Germanic roots meaning 'to brew' or 'heat.' The clipping reflects how English speakers naturally shorten common words in rapid speech.
Word shortening is how English evolved vowel-less words like 'rd' (road) in place names—'brot' might represent how the word sounded when people rushed through speech, though writing it down made it seem archaic.
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