broch

See also: Broch and broc'h

English

Etymology

From Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Compare borough.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɒx/, /ˈbɹɒk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɑx/, /ˈbɹɑk/

Noun

broch (plural brochs)

  1. (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-skinned walls found on Orkney and Shetland 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): /brɔx/

Noun

broch (plural brochs)

  1. broch
  2. burgh, town

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /broːχ/

Noun

broch m (plural brochod or brochion)

  1. badger

Synonyms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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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