Brache
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German brāche, from Old High German brāhha, from Proto-West Germanic *brāku. Cognate with Luxembourgish Brooch, Dutch braak. Related with brechen (“to break”), so called because the field is ploughed (“broken”) and then left in this state.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Brache f (genitive Brache, plural Brachen)
- (agriculture) fallow (unseeded arable land)
- (agriculture) fallow, fallowness (time or state of being unseeded)
- (figurative) something that is not sufficiently exploited or taken care of, something that requires work
Declension edit
Declension of Brache [feminine]
Derived terms edit
- brach (backformation)
References edit
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “braak1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute