The story
- Latin · derived frombranca“claw”
- French · derived frombranc-ursine
- English todaybrankursine
From French branc-ursine, branch-ursine, from Latin branca (“claw”) + ursinus (“belonging to a bear”) (from ursus (“bear”)), i.e. "bear's claw", which its leaves resemble. Compare branch.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.