broc

a badger, so Irish, Early Irish brocc, Welsh, Cornish, broch, Breton broc'h, *brokko-s: *bork-ko-, "grey one"; root bherk, bhork, bright, Greek $$Gforkós, grey, Lithuanian berszti, English bright? Thurneysen cfs. the Latin broccus, having projecting teeth, whence French broche (from Latin *brocca, a spike, etc.), a spit, English broach, brooch; he thinks the badger was named broccos from his snout, and he instances the French brochet, pike, as parallet by derivation and analogy. If Greek $$Gbrúkw, bite, is allied to Latin broccus, the underlying idea of broc may rather be the "biter", "gripper". Bezzenberger suggests Russ. barsúku$$u, Turk. porsuk, Magyar borz; or *brokko-s, from *bhrod-ko-s, Sanskrit bradhná, dun.