broch

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See also: Broch and broc'h

English

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Etymology

From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.

Pronunciation

Noun

broch (plural brochs)

  1. (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
    • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 268:
      Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse borg.

Pronunciation

Noun

broch (plural brochs)

  1. broch
  2. burgh, town

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots broch

Noun

broch m (plural broches)

  1. broch

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh broch, from Proto-Brythonic *brox, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

Pronunciation

Noun

broch m (plural brochod)

  1. badger

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Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
broch froch mroch unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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