broker

broker
\ \ [14] Broker has no connection with the past tense of break. It comes from Anglo- Norman brocoursmall trader’, but its ultimate origin is not clear. A variant Anglo-Norman form abrocour has fuelled speculation as to a link with Spanish alboroquesealing of a bargain’ and Portuguese alborcarbarter’, which are presumably of Arabic origin (the alrepresenting the Arabic definite article); but other etymologists have sought to link the word with broach, as if the underlying sense were ‘someone who sells wine from [that is, by broaching] the cask’, and hence any ‘retailer’.

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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