The less common name "brock" (Old English: "brocc"), (Scots: "brock") is a Celtic loanword (cf. Gaelic "broc" and Welsh "broch", from Proto-Celtic "*brokkos") meaning "grey". The Proto-Germanic term was "*þahsuz" (cf. German "Dachs", Dutch "das", Norwegian svin"toks"; Early Modern English "dasse"), probably from the PIE root "*tek'-" "to construct," so the badger would have been named after its digging of setts (tunnels); the Germanic term "*þahsuz" became "taxus" or "taxō", -"ōnis" in Latin glosses, replacing "mēlēs" ("marten" or "badger"), and from these words the common Romance terms for the animal evolved (Italian "tasso", French "taisson"—"blaireau" is now more common—Catalan "toixó", Spanish "tejón", Portuguese "texugo").