branch – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to branch
Participle: branched
Gerund: branching

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	branch
we	Let's branch
you	branch

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

divide

diverge, separate, ramify, subdivide

Antonyms

divide

combine, connect, attach, couple

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1297, "limb of a tree" (also used of things analogous to it, especially geographic features), from O.Fr. branche, from L.L. branca "a claw, paw," of unknown origin, probably Gaulish. Meaning "local office of a business" is first recorded 1817, from earlier sense of "component part of a system" (1696). The verb meaning "to diverge from a central point" is first attested 1799.
2. From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
3. Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
4. The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun. See: Middle English 'braunchen'.

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