borg
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a fortified castle (or city)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish borgh (fortress, city) inherited from Old Norse borg inherited from Proto-Germanic *burgz (stronghold, city, fortress, borough, fortification, hill-fort, fortified town, town, burg, castle) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (high, rise, fort, hill, fortified elevation, elevate, height, become high, hide, raise, mountain, elevated, protect), *bʰerǵʰ- (high, rise, fort, hill, fortified elevation, elevate, height, become high, hide, raise, mountain, elevated, protect).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰerǵʰ-
Gloss
high, rise, fort, hill, fortified elevation, elevate, height, become high, hide, raise, mountain, elevated, protect
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
丘, 岡, 阜
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Blythburgh English
- Edithburgh English
- Foxborough English
- Gothenburg English
- Marlborough English
- Musselburgh English
- borough English
- boroughholder English
- boroughhood English
- boroughmaster English
- boroughmonger English
- boroughwide English
- broch English
- burgh English
- burghal English
- burghbote English
- burgher English
- burghmote English
- county borough English
- interborough English
- multiborough English
- Göteborg Finnish
- Göötepori Finnish
- Porvoo Finnish
- Viipuri Finnish
- pormestari Finnish
- porvari Finnish
- *burgus Latin
- burgensis Latin
- burgus Latin
- fortificatio Latin
- fortifico Latin
- fortificō Latin
- fortis Latin
- fortis, fortem Latin
- fortitūdō Latin
- Göteborg Italian
- borgo Italian
- berg Dutch, Flemish
- bourg French
- bourgeois French
- Гётеборг Russian
- Gotemburgo Spanish, Castilian
- brío Spanish, Castilian
- Φρύξ Ancient Greek
- πύργος Ancient Greek
- *bʰergʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerǵʰ-, *bʰr̥ǵʰs Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰr̥ǵʰs Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰérǵʰ-s Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰérǵʰonts Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂erkʷo- Proto-Indo-European
- Gøteborg Norwegian Bokmål
- borg Norwegian Bokmål
- Gotemburgo Portuguese
- *berganą Proto-Germanic
- *bergaz Proto-Germanic
- *burgz Proto-Germanic
- Borgå Swedish
- Geat Swedish
- Göteborg Swedish
- borgare Swedish
- borgarkrig Swedish
- borgarråd Swedish
- borgmästare Swedish
- borgmästarinna Swedish
- en Swedish
- finger Swedish
- fingerborg Swedish
- göt Swedish
- göteborgska Swedish
- hoppa Swedish
- hoppborg Swedish
- medborgare Swedish
- mästare Swedish
- småborgare Swedish
- å Swedish
- Göteborg Polish
- Gøteborg Norwegian Nynorsk
- borg Norwegian Nynorsk
- Banna Old English
- burg Old English
- burh Old English
- ब्राह्मण Sanskrit
- borwe Middle English
- borg Old Norse
- Gøteborg Danish
- borg Danish
- *bergъ Proto-Slavic
- borgeis Old French
- burgeis Old French
- Gotenburgo Esperanto
- berg Icelandic
- borg Icelandic
- burg Old High German
- burgāri Old High German
- բառնամ Old Armenian
- burgo Ido
- borg Faroese
- burg Albanian
- fort Middle French
- 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 Gothic
- *burg gmw-pro
- burg Old Dutch
- *Senobrix Proto-Celtic
- *bargīti Proto-Celtic
- *brigantīnos Proto-Celtic
- *brixs Proto-Celtic
- *kaito- Proto-Celtic
- *karants Proto-Celtic
- *lestro- Proto-Celtic
- *talu- Proto-Celtic
- *trāgi- Proto-Celtic
- *windos Proto-Celtic
- *ɸano-, *ɸeno- Proto-Celtic
- *bʰárȷ́ʰištʰas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *bʰŕ̥ȷ́ʰma Proto-Indo-Iranian
- borgár Northern Sami
- borgh Old Swedish
- borghmæstare Old Swedish
- broch Scots
- *burg Frankish
- ܒܘܪܓܐ Classical Syriac
- forctis Old Latin
- berz Zazaki
- 𒁓𒂵𒈾 Urartian