different between brach vs brachet

English

Etymology 1

Originally in plural, from Old French brachez, plural of brachet, a diminutive of Occitan brac, from Frankish. Cognate to the German Bracke. More at brachet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?æt??/
• Rhymes: -æt?

Noun

brach (plural brachs or braches)

1. (archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.
   • ca. 1604-1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1, 4, 109-111.

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, First Folio (1623), III.6:

     Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, / Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym […].

   • , NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:

     A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

2. (archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XVI:

     Now, was it not the depth of absurdity—of genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful, slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her?

Synonyms

• bitch

See also

• brachet

Etymology 2

Shortening of brachiopod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?æk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

brach (plural brachs)

1. (paleontology, informal) brachiopod

Anagrams

• B.Arch., Barch

Czech

Etymology

From bratr (“brother”) +? -ch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?brax]

Noun

brach m

1. (colloquial) bro
2. (colloquial) guy

Further reading

• brach in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• brach in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bra?x/, [b?a??]

Etymology 1

Backformation from brachliegen, from in Brache liegen, from the noun Brache (“fallow land, fallowness”). Cognate with Dutch braak. Related with brechen (etymology 2).

Adjective

brach (not comparable)

1. fallow

   Synonyms: unbestellt, unbebaut

Declension

Derived terms

• Brachland

Related terms

• Brache
• brachliegen (brach liegen)

Etymology 2

Verb

brach

1. first/third-person singular preterite of brechen

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

brach m (genitive singular bracha)

1. pus
2. discharge from eyes during sleep

Declension

Derived terms

• brachaí (“bleary”, adjective) (of eyes)
• brachshúileach (“blear-eyed”, adjective)

Etymology 2

Noun

brach f (genitive singular braiche)

1. Alternative form of braich (“malt”)

Declension

Verb

brach (present analytic brachann, future analytic brachfaidh, verbal noun brachadh, past participle brachta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of braich (“malt”)

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• "brach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Polish

Etymology

From brat (“brother”) +? -ch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brax/

Noun

brach m pers

1. (colloquial) a male comrade or friend; bro

Declension

Noun

brach m

1. locative plural of ber

   Synonym: berach

Further reading

• brach in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• brach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Middle English brachet, from Old French brachet, a diminutive of Old Occitan brac, from Frankish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?æt???t/
• Rhymes: -æt??t

Noun

brachet (plural brachets)

1. (obsolete) A female hunting hound that hunts by scent.

See also

• brach

Anagrams

• Bachert, Chabert, batcher, braceth, rebatch

Old French

Alternative forms

• braquet

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French and Old Occitan brac (“hound”), from Old High German and Frankish *brakko, from Proto-Germanic *brak (“dog that hunts by scent”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?g- (“to smell”). Cognate with Old High German braccho.

Noun

brachet m (oblique plural brachez or brachetz, nominative singular brachez or brachetz, nominative plural brachet)

1. hunting dog trained to follow the scent of an animal

Descendants

• ? English: brachet

References

• “brachet” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Weekley, Ernest (2013): An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English