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English
Proper noun
Brach
- A surname.
- A commune in Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Originally referring to a kind of bread soup made with soured milk. Hence from a variant of Middle High German brocke (“broken-off piece, especially of bread”) or the verb brocken (“to break into pieces”); compare German Brocken, brocken, Dutch brok. If the -ch- is old, it may be due to hypercorrection (during the interaction of Frankish and High German influences), otherwise it may be a later adaptation to the related Luxembourgish briechen (“to break”), Broch (“fracture”). The feminine gender probably from Mëllech (“milk”) and/or Zopp (“soup”), perhaps from an underlying compound *Brachmëllech, *Brachzopp, the former of which is attested in adjacent dialects in Germany.
Pronunciation
Noun
Brach f (uncountable, diminutive Brächelchen)
- curdled milk, sour milk
- (chiefly diminutive) pieces of bread dipped in a liquid
Polish
Etymology
Possibly from brach, a derivative of brat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrax/
- Rhymes: -ax
- Syllabification: Brach
Proper noun
Brach m pers
- a male surname
Declension
Proper noun
Brach f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Further reading
- “Brach”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022