burg
Old Dutch
noun
Definitions
- fortress, castle
- city
Etymology
Inherited from *burg inherited from Proto-Germanic *burgz (stronghold, city, fortress, borough, fortification, hill-fort, fortified town, town, burg, castle).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*burgz
Gloss
stronghold, city, fortress, borough, fortification, hill-fort, fortified town, town, burg, castle
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
城
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Viipuri Finnish
- *burgus Latin
- burgus Latin
- πύργος Ancient Greek
- *bʰerǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰr̥ǵʰs Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰérǵʰ-s Proto-Indo-European
- *burgz Proto-Germanic
- Banna Old English
- burg Old English
- burh Old English
- borg Old Norse
- borgeis Old French
- burgeis Old French
- borch Middle Dutch
- burg Old High German
- burgāri Old High German
- burg Albanian
- 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 Gothic
- *burg gmw-pro
- *burg Old Dutch
- burg Old Saxon
- *burg Frankish