breachyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[breach 词源字典]
breach: see break
[breach etymology, breach origin, 英语词源]
breach (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
Old English bryce "breach, fracture, a breaking," from brecan (see break), influenced by Old French breche "breach, opening, gap," from Frankish; both from Proto-Germanic *brecho, *bræko "broken," from PIE root *bhreg- "to break" (see fraction). Figurative sense of "a breaking of rules, etc." was in Old English Breach of contract is at least from 1660s.
breach (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1570s, from breach (n.). Related: Breached; breaching.