Brach

Brach

1. A surname.
2. A commune in Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Originally referring to a kind of bread soup made with soured milk. Hence from a variant of Middle High German brocke (“broken-off piece, especially of bread”) or the verb brocken (“to break into pieces”); compare German Brocken, brocken, Dutch brok. If the -ch- is old, it may be due to hypercorrection (during the interaction of Frankish and High German influences), otherwise it may be a later adaptation to the related Luxembourgish briechen (“to break”), Broch (“fracture”). The feminine gender probably from Mëllech (“milk”) and/or Zopp (“soup”), perhaps from an underlying compound *Brachmëllech, *Brachzopp, the former of which is attested in adjacent dialects in Germany.

• IPA^(key): /bʀaχ/, [bʀɑχ]

  Rhymes: -ɑχ

Brach f (uncountable, diminutive Brächelchen)

1. curdled milk, sour milk
2. (chiefly diminutive) pieces of bread dipped in a liquid

Possibly from brach, a derivative of brat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrax/
• Rhymes: -ax
• Syllabification: Brach

Brach m pers

1. a male surname

Brach f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Brach”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022