different between broch vs brooch

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??x/, /?b??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??x/, /?b??k/

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, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), 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): /br?x/

Noun

broch (plural brochs)

1. broch
2. burgh, town

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *brox, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro??/

Noun

broch m (plural brochod or brochion)

1. badger

Synonyms

• daearfochyn
• mochyn daear

Mutation

English

Etymology

Variant of broach.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b???t?/
• (US) enPR: br?ch, IPA^(key): /b?o?t?/, /b?u?t?/
• Rhymes: -??t?, -u?t?
• Homophone: broach

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

1. A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.

   Synonym: breastpin

   Hypernym: pin

2. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Translations

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.

References

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?o??/

Adjective

brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)

1. fallow

Declension

Derived terms

• broochleeën
• broochleien