burg

See also: Burg and -burg

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *burgz (“borough, fortification”). Doublet of burgh.

Noun

burg (plural burgs)

1. (Canada, US) A city or town.
   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:

     Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good.

   • 2009 June, David Thriault, “This Way In: The Sound and the Fury”, in Esquire, volume 151, number 6, page 6:

     Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me.

   • 2010 Feb, Paige Orloff, “Big Style on a (Little) Budget”, in Country Living, volume 33, number 2, page 84:

     It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills.

2. (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.

Related terms

• burgher
• burghermaster
• burgomaster
• burgrave

Translations

fortified town in medieval Europe

• French: bourg (fr) m
• Galician: burgo m
• Italian: borgo (it) m
• Latin: burgus m
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• Old Portuguese: burgo m
• Portuguese: burgo (pt) m
• Spanish: burgo m

Etymology 2

Noun

burg (plural burgs)

1. (slang) burger
   • 2002, Ricard Marx Weinraub, Wonder Bread Hill, page 6:

     I hate this emptiness and the redundancy of eating burgs at Burger Town.

Anagrams

• grub

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Albanian

Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *burgz (“borough, fortification”).

Noun

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

1. jail, prison (brig)

Synonyms

• hapsane f, haps m, quzë f, quar m

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʏrx/

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• Hyphenation: burg
• Rhymes: -ʏrx

Noun

burg f (plural burgen, diminutive burgje n)

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

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Irish

Noun

burg m (genitive singular buirg, nominative plural buirg)

1. Alternative form of buirg (“borough”)

Declension

Declension of burg

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative burg buirg Vocative a bhuirg a bhurga Genitive buirg burg Dative burg buirg

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an burg na buirg Genitive an bhuirg na mburg Dative leis an mburg don bhurg leis na buirg

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
burg	bhurg	mburg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “burg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “burg”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “burg”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *burgz.

Noun

burg f

1. fortress, castle
2. city

Inflection

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Descendants

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

Further reading

• “burg”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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Old English

Alternative forms

• burh

Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /burɡ/, [burˠɣ]

Noun

burg f (nominative plural byriġ)

1. city

   Scotta byriġ ne sind swā þicca swā Engla.

   Scottish cities aren't as dense as English ones.

2. town

   Þis is sēo burg þǣr hē ġeboren wæs.

   This is the town where he was born.

3. a fortified place: stronghold, fort, castle

Declension

Declension of burg

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	burg	byriġ, byrġ
accusative	burg	byriġ, byrġ
genitive	byriġ, byrġ	burga
dative	byriġ, byrġ	burgum

Synonyms

• ċeaster

Derived terms

• Cantwara burg
• underburg

Descendants

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

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Old High German

Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”).

Noun

burg ?

1. a castle
2. a city

Descendants

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

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• burh
• burug

Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊrɣ/

Noun

burg f

1. fort, castle
   • Heliand, verse 4187:

     imu thô an Effrem an theru hôhon burg uunode ― he then lived in the high fort of Effrem

2. city, town
   • Genesis, verse 238:

     bûan an them burugium ― to live in these cities

Declension

Declension of burg, burh (feminine i-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	burg, burh	burgi
accusative	burg, burh	burgi
genitive	burgi	burgiō
dative	burgi	burgium
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

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