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[Tahl]

Rhaid i mi sibrwd:- moch ddaear

Or, of course, broch- I don't know how much this is used in Welsh today, but it passed into English as "Brock".

Interesting. I've never heard 'brock' before. I found this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brock
Is it a commonly-used and -known word for 'badger' in the UK?

[Lurch2]

nteresting. I've never heard 'brock' before. I found this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brock
Is it a commonly-used and -known word for 'badger' in the UK?

Not nowadays, but it's a commonly known word as one which used to be used, if that makes any sense! Come to think of it, I've really only heard or read the word in that context, so have no idea what dialects or time line it covered, as it were! It could just be a myth!

Thanks for asking the question- could be an interesting thing to try and find out.....

Oxford English Dictionary in the library probably a place to start. Examples of usage and all that.

[Journeymouse]

The descriptions are in welsh but there is an English index as well as the welsh so you can identify everything. I bought it mainly to learn the welsh names, but it's fun to have a go at reading the descriptions as well.

Ta

[Sionned]

nteresting. I've never heard 'brock' before. I found this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brock
Is it a commonly-used and -known word for 'badger' in the UK?

Not nowadays, but it's a commonly known word as one which used to be used, if that makes any sense! Come to think of it, I've really only heard or read the word in that context, so have no idea what dialects or time line it covered, as it were! It could just be a myth!

Thanks for asking the question- could be an interesting thing to try and find out.....

Oxford English Dictionary in the library probably a place to start. Examples of usage and all that.

OK, since I have a (compact) OED, I looked up "brock." There are actually five entries for the word, but the first is defined as "a badger". The etymology given is: OE. broc, from Celtic: OIr. brocc, Ir. and Gael. broc, Welsh and Cornish broch, Breton broc'h: - OCeltic *broccos, prob. cogn. w. Gr. Φορκός grey, white; cf. the Eng. name gray, grey.

E2A: The earliest reference given for this use is c. 1000 in a Saxon record saying that the word in "englisc" is broc.

[Bryn-Daf]

nteresting. I've never heard 'brock' before. I found this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brock
Is it a commonly-used and -known word for 'badger' in the UK?

Not nowadays, but it's a commonly known word as one which used to be used

Lurch while I quite agree...we must be careful saying that just because most of england doesnt say brock anymore that means its not said anywhere else anymore....I remember locals in the south west I think saying it for badger, but I wont lie I cant remember where the hec I heard them say it!! fail

[Bryn-Daf]

Carw - deer/stag? (plural/lluosog = ceirw?)

Badger - Mochyn (plural. moch?) y ddaear - pig of the earth

[RobertBruce]

nteresting. I've never heard 'brock' before. I found this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brock
Is it a commonly-used and -known word for 'badger' in the UK?

Not nowadays, but it's a commonly known word as one which used to be used

Lurch while I quite agree...we must be careful saying that just because most of england doesnt say brock anymore that means its not said anywhere else anymore....I remember locals in the south west I think saying it for badger, but I wont lie I cant remember where the hec I heard them say it!! fail

I've heard people refer to badgers in general as 'Mr Brock'; as in, "See that gap under the fence, yon? That be where Mr Brock come[s] into the yard."