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style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of branch" class="word__name--TTbAA">branch<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>c. 1300, <span class="foreign notranslate">braunch</span>, "division or subdivision of the stem of a tree or bush" (also used of things resembling a branch in its relation to a trunk, such as geographic features, lines of family descent), from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">branche</span> "branch, bough, twig; branch of a family" (12c.), from Late Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">branca</span> "footprint," later "a claw, paw," which is of unknown origin, said to be probably from Gaulish. The connecting notion would be the shape (compare <a href="/word/pedigree" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pedigree " class="crossreference notranslate">pedigree</a>).</p> <p>In English it replaced native <a href="/word/bough" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of bough " class="crossreference notranslate">bough</a>. The meaning "local office of a business" is recorded by 1817, from the earlier sense of "component part of a system" (1690s).</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:c.%201300">c. 1300</a></div></div></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><div id="etymonline_v_43996" style="position:absolute;top:-100px"></div><p title="Origin and meaning of branch" class="word__name--TTbAA">branch<!-- --> <!-- -->(v.)</p><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>"send out shoots or new limbs," late 14c., also, of blood vessels, family trees, etc., "be forked," from <a href="/word/branch#etymonline_v_15720" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of branch " class="crossreference notranslate">branch</a> (n.). The meaning "spread out from a center, radiate" is from c. 1400. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Branched</span>; <span class="foreign notranslate">branching</span>.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:late%2014c.">late 14c.</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to branch">Entries linking to <i>branch</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of bough" href="/word/bough#etymonline_v_15654">bough<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>Middle English <span class="foreign notranslate">bough</span>, from Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">bog</span> "shoulder, arm," extended in Old English to "twig, branch of a tree" (compare <a href="/word/limb#etymonline_v_9522" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of limb " class="crossreference notranslate">limb</a> (n.1)), from Proto-Germanic <span class="foreign notranslate">*bogaz</span> (source also of Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">bogr</span> "shoulder," Old High German <span class="foreign notranslate">buog</span> "upper part of the arm or leg," German <span class="foreign notranslate">Bug</span> "shoulder, hock, joint"), from PIE root <span class="foreign notranslate">*bhagu-</span> "arm" (source also of Sanskrit <span class="foreign notranslate">bahus</span> "arm," Armenian <span class="foreign notranslate">bazuk</span>, Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">pakhys</span> "forearm"). The "limb of a tree" sense is peculiar to English.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of pedigree" href="/word/pedigree#etymonline_v_10248">pedigree<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>early 15c., <span class="foreign notranslate">pedigrue</span>, "genealogical table or chart," from Anglo-French <span class="foreign notranslate">pe de gru</span>, a variant of Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">pied de gru</span> "foot of a crane," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">pedem</span> accusative of <span class="foreign notranslate">pes</span> "foot" (from PIE root <a href="/word/*ped-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *ped- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*ped-</a> "foot") + <span class="foreign notranslate">gruem</span> (nominative <span class="foreign notranslate">grus</span>) "crane," cognate with Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">geranos</span>, Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">cran</span>; see <a href="/word/crane#etymonline_v_296" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of crane " class="crossreference notranslate">crane</a> (n.)).</p> <p>On old manuscripts, "descent" was indicated by a forked sign resembling the branching lines of a genealogical chart; the sign also happened to look like a bird's footprint. On this theory the form was influenced in Middle English by association with <span class="foreign notranslate">degree</span>. This explanation dates back to Skeat and Sweet in the late 1800s. The word obviously is of French origin, and <span class="foreign notranslate">pied de gru</span> is the only Old French term answering to the earliest English forms, but this sense is not attested in Old French (Modern French <span class="foreign notranslate">pédigree</span> is from English). Perhaps it was a fanciful extension developed in Anglo-French. Other explanations are considered untenable.</p> <blockquote> The crane was at the time in question very common in England and France, and it figures in many similes, proverbs, and allusions. The term appears to be extant in the surname <span class="foreign notranslate">Pettigrew, Pettygrew</span> .... [Century Dictionary] </blockquote> <p>Meaning "ancestral line" is mid-15c.; of animals, c. 1600. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Pedigreed</span>.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of branch">Trends of <i>branch</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:200px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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The native word was rind...."any small vessel or ship," early 15c., from French barque "</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of ram" href="/word/ram"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">ram<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">Old English ramm "male sheep," also "battering ram, instrument for crushing or driving by impact," and the zodiac sign; earlier rom "male sheep," a West Germanic word (cognates: Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German ram), of unknown origin. 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