Editing Bread (section)

==Etymology==
The [[Old English language|Old English]] word for bread was {{Lang|ang|hlaf}} ({{Lang|got|hlaifs}} in [[Gothic language|Gothic]]: modern English ''[[loaf]]'') which appears to be the oldest [[Germanic languages|Teutonic]] name.<ref name=etym/> [[Old High German]] {{Lang|goh|hleib}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Diakonov |first=Igor M. |title=The Paths of History |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-521-64398-6 |page=79 |quote=Slavic langues retain many Gothic words, reflecting cultural borrowings: thus ''khleb'', (bread) from an earlier ''khleiba'' from Gothic ''hlaifs'', or, rather, from the more ancient form ''hlaibhaz'', which meant bread baked in an oven (and, probably, made with yeast), as different from a l-iepekha, which was a flat cake moulded (liepiti) from paste, and baked on charcoal. [the same nominal stem *hlaibh- has been preserved in modern English as loaf; cf. Lord, from ancient ''hlafweard'' bread-keeper]}}</ref> and modern [[German language|German]] {{Lang|de|Laib}} derive from this [[Proto-Germanic]] word, which was borrowed into some [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] ({{Langx|cs|chléb}}, {{Langx|pl|bochen chleba}}, [[Russian language|Russian]]: {{Transliteration|ru|khleb}}) and [[Baltic-Finnic languages|Finnic]] ({{Langx|fi|leipä}}, {{Langx|et|leib}}) languages as well.