brachet

See also: Brachet and brächet

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, a diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Occitan brac, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæt͡ʃɪt/
• Rhymes: -ætʃɪt

Noun

brachet (plural brachets)

1. (obsolete) A female hunting hound that hunts by scent.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book III:
     :

     Ryght so as they sat ther came rennyng in a whyte hert in to the halle and a whyte brachet next hym and xxx couple of black rennyng houndes cam after with a greete crye

See also

• brach

Anagrams

• Bachert, Chabert, batcher, braceth, rebatch

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Old French

Alternative forms

• braquet

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French and Old Occitan brac (“hound”), from Old High German and Frankish *brakko, from Proto-Germanic *brak (“dog that hunts by scent”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”). Cognate with Old High German braccho.

Noun

brachet oblique singular, m (oblique plural brachez or brachetz, nominative singular brachez or brachetz, nominative plural brachet)

1. hunting dog trained to follow the scent of an animal

Descendants

• → English: brachet

References

• “brachet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Weekley, Ernest (2013): An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English