brough

== English == === Etymology === A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɹʌf/ IPA(key): /bɹʊf/ (Northern England) === Noun === brough (plural broughs) A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm. ==== Alternative forms ==== bruff === References === == Yola == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English breoken, from Old English brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan. ==== Alternative forms ==== brocke, brek ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /bruːx/, /brɔk/, /brɛk/ ==== Verb ==== brough (simple past broughet or brake) to break === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== brough alternative form of brogue === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28