The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bʰreh₂g-“to smell”
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*brak“dog that hunts by scent”
- Frankish · derived from*brakko
- Middle Dutch · derived frombracke“bloodhound”
- English todayBrakke
* As a Norwegian surname Brække, variant of Brekke. * As a Dutch surname, from Middle Dutch bracke (“bloodhound”), from Frankish *brakko, from Proto-Germanic *brak (“dog that hunts by scent”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.