bière

beer

Related: bière à la pression, bière blonde, bière brune, bière de garde, bière de table, panse à bière, petite bière

Inherited from Middle French biere, borrowed from Middle Dutch bier, from Old Dutch *bier, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ (compare Old Saxon and Old High German bior), all from Proto-Germanic *beuzą. Akin to Old English bēor (“beer”). More at beer.

bier; coffin

“La mise en bière.” — The action of putting a corpse in a coffin.

Inherited from Old French biere, from Proto-Germanic *bērō; cognate with German Bahre and English bier.