branc

Old French

Alternative forms

brant, brand, brank

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *brandus (“firebrand, flaming sword, sword”), from Frankish *brand, *brant (“firebrand, flaming sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“firebrand, torch, sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old High German brant (“fire, firebrand, burning iron”), Old English brand (“fire, flame, brand, torch, sword, weapon”), Old Norse brandr (“fire, firebrand, sword”). More at brand.

Noun

branc m (oblique plural brans, nominative singular brans, nominative plural branc)

blade of a sword
- 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
  En la cervele li fist le branc baignier.
  He bathed his blade in his brain.

Descendants

Middle French: brand
- French: brand (archaic)
⇒ Old French: brandeler
- Middle French: bransler
  - French: branler
- Walloon: branler

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (brant)

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