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bread

Source:*xlěbъProto-Slavic · “bread, loaf”certain

The jat of *xlěbъ gives the textbook spread: хлеб, хліб, chleb, chléb, hljeb/hleb.

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English

bread

Polish

chleb

xlɛp

CognateSame source — the sound laws connect them.

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BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
хлебxleb
xlʲepinherited
Ukrainian
хлібxlib
xlʲibinherited
Polish
chleb
xlɛpinherited
Czech
chléb
xlɛːpinherited
In everyday speech Czechs mostly say chleba.
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
hljeb / hlebхљеб / хлеб
xʎebinherited
Standard-specific words: kruh (Croatian) — From *kruxъ 'piece'; Bosnian uses both.
English
bread
English shares this source: loaf — Proto-Slavic took *xlěbъ from early Germanic *hlaiba-, the ancestor of English loaf.