different between broch vs broth

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

From Middle English broth, from Old English broþ (“broth”), from Proto-West Germanic *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþ? (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?- (“to seethe, roil, brew”). Akin to Old English breowan (“to brew”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: brôth
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: br?th
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: br?th
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

broth (countable and uncountable, plural broths)

1. (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.

   Synonyms: bouillon, liquor, pot liquor, stock

2. (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• dashi
• souse
• stock

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: brot

Anagrams

• Borth, throb

Irish

Noun

broth m (genitive singular brotha)

1. Alternative form of bruth (“heat; rash, eruption; nap, pile, covering”)

Declension

Mutation

References

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• broð, broþ, brotthe, broþþe, broththe

Etymology

From Old English broþ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Noun

broth (plural brothes)

1. Water in which something (usually food) has been boiled; broth.

Descendants

• English: broth
  • ? Scottish Gaelic: brot
• Scots: broth

References

• “broth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.