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{{11}}branch (n.) c.1300, braunch, "limb of a tree" (also used of things analogous to it, especially geographic features), from O.Fr. branche "branch, bough, twig; branch of a family" (12c.), from L.L. branca "footprint," later "a claw, paw," of unknown origin, probably from Gaulish. The connecting notion would be the shape. Replaced native BOUGH (Cf. bough). Meaning "local office of a business" is first recorded 1817, from earlier sense of "component part of a system" (1690s).
{{12}}branch (v.) "send out shoots or new limbs," late 14c., also, of blood vessels, family trees, etc., "to be forked," from BRANCH (Cf. branch) (n.). Meaning "to spread out from a center, radiate" is from c.1400. Related: Branched; branching.

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