köken: Borrowed from Old Occitan brac, bracon, from Proto-Germanic *brakko (“setter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”). Related to Old High German bracchio.
köken: Inherited from Old Polish wyżeł, from Proto-Slavic *vyžьlъ. By surface analysis, wyga + -eł. Alternatively borrowed from Hungarian vizsla, itself probably a borrowing from Slavic. Cognate to Czech vyžle, Russian выжла (vyžla) and Serbo-Croatian vižao/Serbo-Croatian вижао.