Brache

From Middle High German brāche, from Old High German brāhha, from Proto-West Germanic *brāku. Cognate with Luxembourgish Brooch, Dutch braak. Related with brechen (“to break”), so called because the field is ploughed (“broken”) and then left in this state.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʁaːxə/

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1. (agriculture) fallow (unseeded arable land)
2. (agriculture) fallow, fallowness (time or state of being unseeded)
3. (figurative) something that is not sufficiently exploited or taken care of, something that requires work

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• brach (backformation)

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “braak1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• “Brache” in Duden online
• “Brache” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache