Word Origin Summary

Broek is attested in Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *bruocOld Dutchinherited from
2. *brōkProto-West Germanicinherited from
3. broecMiddle Dutchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ibhulukhwe

  Xhosa · derived from

• bruku

  Sranan Tongo · borrowed from

• broek

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• bhurukwa

  Shona · derived from

• Broekhuysen

  German · derived from

• ibhulukwe

  Zulu · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root