broch
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
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Noun[edit]
broch (plural brochs)
- (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[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
broch (plural brochs)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
broch m (plural broches)
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Welsh broch, from Proto-Brythonic *brox, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
broch m (plural brochod)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- melfroch (“honey badger”)
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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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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