köken: Adopted in the 18th century from German Low German, which may have borrowed it from Dutch. A Dutch verb happen (“to snap”) is attested from the 16th century on; all ultimately imitative of children's speech (Kindersprache), akin to (South) Proto-Slavic *xapati. Compare also contemporary Dutch hap. It is unsettled whether there is any relation with Old French happer.
köken: Inherited from Middle French, from the noun moing (“something crippled, mutilated”), of uncertain origin, possibly a pre-Roman substrate borrowing *munnio, *munno (“blunt”).
a scrap, remnant of shattering · damage, harm, wreckage, pieces (as a consequence of an accident) · a lump, chunk, piece
çekim: çoğul brokken
eş: brokstuk, fragment, klont, kluit, homp
köken: From Middle Dutch broc (“broken-off piece”), also attested as plural brocken. Probably from a merger of two interrelated nouns, both belonging to the root of breken (“to break”): * Old Dutch *broc, from Proto-Germanic *brukaz, cognate with Old High German broh, Old English (ge)broc; * Old Dutch *brocko, from Proto-Germanic *brukkô, cognate with Old High German brocko (modern German Brocken). The…
stump (of a tree); stub, stubble · stock (of a plant)
köken: First attested as Middle Korean 그릏 (kùlùh) in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1:45a, 1459. Beyond Middle Korean, speculatively connected to Goguryeo 斤乙 (*kur) from the place name gloss of 沙非斤乙 to 赤木縣 (“red tree district”) found in the Samguk sagi.
köken: Remodified from obsolete за́лог (zálog), with reduction of unstressed -o- > -ŏ- > -ъ- and devoicing of final -г > -к. Akin to Serbo-Croatian за̏лога̄ј.
köken: Dissimilation of brúire, from Middle Irish brúar (“crumbs, bits”), from the root of Old Irish bruïd (“to break in pieces”), from Proto-Celtic *bruseti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”).