Word Origin Summary

Broec is attested in Middle 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

Descendants and Related Terms

• Brugakker

  Dutch · inherited from

• ibhulukhwe

  Xhosa · derived from

• bruku

  Sranan Tongo · borrowed from

• broek

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Diemerbroek

  Dutch · inherited from

• Brucht

  Dutch · inherited from

• broek

  Dutch · inherited from

• bhurukwa

  Shona · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root