Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
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