Etymology

brachet

brach·et
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Today it means: A female hunting hound that hunts by scent; a brach. Full definition →

Middle English brachet ← Old French brachet ← Old Occitan brac
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  1. Old Occitan · derived frombrac
  2. Old French · derived frombrachet
  3. Middle English · inherited frombrachet
  4. English todaybrachet

From Middle English brachet, from Old French brachet, a diminutive of Old Occitan brac, from Frankish. By surface analysis, brach + -et.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchbrachet all →

bratchet

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.