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Hello, Pieter. > brùchdaich: borraigh, pléasc, brúchtaigh The glossary tries to explain Scottish Gaelic words which might not be known to Irish readers of Scottish Gaelic. "brùchdaich" is a Scottish word, and the other three are rough Irish equivalents. "borraigh" in Irish Gaelic is a verb meaning "grow", "swell", "develop", "spring up", "become puffed up" etc. and is often used of plants beginning to grow in Spring. It also takes the form "borr". It is not very common, but the derived noun "borradh" (growth, development, progress, swelling) is quite common and is not restricted to the growth of plants. Ciarán Ó Duibhín.
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Borraigh.
Every human get a surname at its birth and that is not a free choice of yourself. If your name is De Groot or De Lange, everyone in the Netherlands understands the origin...dutch.
When Borra is your name , they ask questions for the rest of your life....if you must fill in a form or you present on a meeting. Very often they asked me: Borra....where does that come from? And then I had no clear answer....
My father, Pieter Borra, received a family register of a cousin, Willem Borra in 1957. These Willem Borra was a clerk on a department of the city of Utrecht and he had spent a long time of its life, studying the family history. Willem Borra had investigated the matter to the year 1609 and collected all actes since that time.
That was a complete lifework but one question was not answered. That was the question of the origin of the name. Now a Jewish professor in 1953 from Amsterdam told him that it was a Jewish surname of Sephardische origin. Within the Borra family that was accepted.
Searching by myself on the net, delivered the proof that in hebrew it is: Elim Boray Olam (and god created the world) and many Jews told me that the name of god in unknown and to use it as a familyname it is a "real crime".
For that reason I searched the Internet for the meaning and the context of the name Borra and a number of Scottish and Irish genealogists helped me a lot.
In the Celtic culture before the Romans the name Borraigh has two meanings: the growth and it is the name of a plant (borago officinalis).
Now it is typical that the distribution area of the plant corresponds exactly to the spread out of the old Celts and a search provided Borraigh, Borrayo, Borray and Borra in the European telephon books agrees also to the same area.
There were some exceptions to America but migration in that direction in the previous centuries speak for itself.
