branc

From branca.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɾaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbɾaŋk]

branc m (plural brancs)

1. a large branch

• “branc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• brant, brand, brank

From Vulgar Latin *brandus (“firebrand, flaming sword, sword”), from Frankish *brand (“firebrand, flaming sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“firebrand, torch, sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old High German brant (“fire, firebrand, burning iron”), Old English brand (“fire, flame, brand, torch, sword, weapon”), Old Norse brandr (“fire, firebrand, sword”). More at brand.

branc oblique singular, m (oblique plural brans, nominative singular brans, nominative plural branc)

1. blade of a sword
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     En la cervele li fist le branc baignier.

     He bathed his blade in his brain.

• Middle French: brand
  • French: brand (archaic)
• ⇒ Old French: brandeler
  • Middle French: bransler
    • French: branler
  • Walloon: branler

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (brant)