Brach

See also: brach and brách

English

Proper noun

Brach

1. A surname.
2. 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

• IPA^(key): /bʀaχ/, [bʀɑχ]

  Rhymes: -ɑχ

Noun

Brach f (uncountable, diminutive Brächelchen)

1. curdled milk, sour milk
2. (chiefly diminutive) pieces of bread dipped in a liquid

Polish

Etymology

Possibly from brach, a derivative of brat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brax/
• Rhymes: -ax
• Syllabification: Brach

Proper noun

Brach m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Brach

	singular	plural
nominative	Brach	Brachowie
genitive	Bracha	Brachów
dative	Brachowi	Brachom
accusative	Bracha	Brachów
instrumental	Brachem	Brachami
locative	Brachu	Brachach
vocative	Brachu	Brachowie

Proper noun

Brach f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Further reading

• “Brach”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022