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English

Alternative forms

• burger

Etymology

From Middle English burger, burgher, burghere, equivalent to burgh +? -er (“inhabitant of”). Likely merged with and reinforced by Middle Dutch burgher (Modern Dutch: burger); from Middle High German burger (Modern German: Bürger); from Old High German burg?ri (“inhabitant of a fortress”); derivative of burg (“fortress, citadel”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“fortified elevation”). Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??(r)
• Homophone: burger

Noun

burgher (plural burghers)

1. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
   1. A member of the medieval mercantile class.
   2. A citizen of a medieval city.
2. A prosperous member of the community; a middle class citizen (may connote complacency).

Derived terms

• burghermaster
• burghership

Related terms

Translations

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

The historical sense is from Late Latin burgus, from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“borough, fortification”). Doublet of borough, Brough, burgh, burh, and bury. Also compare burgess.

The modern sense may have been formed in part by analogy with the many North American city names that are suffixed with -burg (a number of which in the Eastern United States once used -burgh instead. See burgh.), as well as being formed in part due to the German Burg.

Noun

burg (plural burgs)

1. (Canada, US) A city or town.
2. (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.

Related terms

• burgher
• burghermaster
• burgomaster
• burgrave

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

burg (plural burgs)

1. (slang) burger

Anagrams

• grub

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Late Latin burgus (“fortress, watchtower”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortress”), or possibly borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (púrgos, “watchtower, fortress”), although this is difficult given the initial b- in Albanian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bu??]

Noun

burg m (indefinite plural burgje, definite singular burgu, definite plural burgjet)

1. jail, prison

Declension

Synonyms

• hapsane f, haps m, quzë f, quar m

Further reading

• Orel, Vladimir (1998) , “burg”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, ?ISBN, page 42

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?rx/
• Hyphenation: burg
• Rhymes: -?rx

Noun

burg f (plural burgen, diminutive burgje n)

1. Alternative form of burcht, now rarely used outside names.

Irish

Noun

burg m (genitive singular buirg, nominative plural buirg)

1. Alternative form of buirg (“borough”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "burg" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “burg” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “burg” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz.

Noun

burg f

1. fortress, castle
2. city

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: borch, burch
  • Dutch: burg, burcht
    • Afrikaans: burg
  • Limburgish: bórg, börch

Further reading

• “burg”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Alternative forms

• burh

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“fortified elevation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bur?/, [bur??]

Noun

burg f (nominative plural byr?)

1. city

2. town

3. a fortified place: stronghold, fort, castle

Declension

Synonyms

• ?easter

Derived terms

• Cantwara burg
• R?me burg
• underburg

Descendants

• Middle English: burgh
  • Scots: burch, burgh
  • English: borough, -borough, Brough, burg, bur-, burgh, bury (as in borough, manor), -bury
• ? English: burh (learned)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *burg, Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“fortified elevation”).

Noun

burg f

1. a castle
2. a city

Descendants

• Middle High German: burc
  • German: Burg
  • Luxembourgish: Buerg

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• burh
• burug

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *burg, Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“fortified elevation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bur?/

Noun

burg f

1. fort, castle
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2. city, town
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Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: borch
  • German Low German: Börg, Borg

Romanian

Etymology

From French bourg

Noun

burg n (plural burguri)

1. burg, market town

Declension