Etymology

Brekke

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Old Norse brekka
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombrekka“slope, descent”
  2. English todayBrekke

Norwegian surname, from several farms of the same name, from Old Norse brekka (“slope, descent”). Compare Brakke.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsebrekka all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.