broch

See also: Broch and broc'h

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒx/, /ˈbɹɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑx/, /ˈbɹɑk/
• Rhymes: -ɒx, -ɒk

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

• IPA^(key): /brɔx/

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

• IPA^(key): /broːχ/
• Rhymes: -oːχ

Noun

broch m (plural brochod)

1. badger

Synonyms

• daearfochyn
• mochyn daear

Derived terms

• melfroch (“honey badger”)

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.