broch

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbɹɒx/, /ˈbɹɒk/
• (US) IPA: /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), p. 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 […].

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Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse borg.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /brɔx/

Noun

broch (plural brochs)

1. broch
2. burgh, town

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brokko- (“badger”) (compare Old Irish brocc, Cornish brogh, Breton broc'h).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [broːχ]

Noun

broch m (plural brochod or brochion) 

1. badger

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
broch	froch	mroch	unchanged