branc

From branca.

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

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 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)