Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). · A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cf. Strasbourg. Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.
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- Root classification mention*bʰerǵʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionborweenm
- Inherited-form mentionburhang
- Derivation mention*burggmw-pro
- Derivation mention*burgzgem-pro
- Cognate mentionburgnl
- Cognate mentionbourgfr
- Cognate mentionBurgde
- Cognate mentionبرجfa
- Cognate mentionborgsv
- Doublet mentionboroughen
- Doublet mentionBroughen
- Doublet mentionBuryen
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