Brache
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German brāche, from Old High German brāhha, from Proto-West Germanic *brāku. Cognate with Luxembourgish Brooch, Dutch braak. Related with brechen (“to break”), so called because the field is ploughed (“broken”) and then left in this state.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Brache f (genitive Brache, plural Brachen)
- (agriculture) fallow (unseeded arable land)
- (agriculture) fallow, fallowness (time or state of being unseeded)
- (figurative) something that is not sufficiently exploited or taken care of, something that requires work
Declension
[edit]Declension of Brache [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]- brach (backformation)
References
[edit]- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “braak1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further reading
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