brasser

to brew (beer); to intermingle

From Old French bracier, from brace (“malt”), from Gaulish *brakis (Latinized accusative bracem in Pliny) (compare Scottish Gaelic braich, Welsh brag), from Proto-Celtic *mrakis, from Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“to be soaked”) (compare Latin marceō (“to wither, droop”), North Frisian marig (“tallow”), Lithuanian mer̃kti (“to soak”), Ossetian марг (marg, “poison”)).