borg

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡ

Clipping of cyborg, a contraction of cybernetic organism.

borg (plural borgs)

1. Synonym of cyborg.
   • 2003, Dalos Gaymer, “Gotcha Force Review for GameCube”, GameFAQs:

     You'll also have to put together a team or Force of borgs that you won from winning battles. Before battle you assemble your Force within the GF Energy Limit. Each borg has a cost attached to them and this GF Energy Limit is kind of like your budget.

borg (third-person singular simple present borgs, present participle borging, simple past and past participle borged)

1. Alternative spelling of Borg.

borg (plural borgs)

1. Alternative form of BORG.

• Grob, brog

From Middle High German vurch. Cognate with German Furche, English furrow.

borg m

1. (Sette Comuni) furrow (trench cut in soil)

• “borg” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒˀw], [ˈpɒwˀ]
• Homophone: bov

From Old Danish borgh, burg, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), cognate with German Burg (“castle”) and English borough. The Germanic noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise”), which is also the source of Danish bjerg (“mountain”).

borg c (singular definite borgen, plural indefinite borge)

1. castle, stronghold

• borg on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Middle Low German borg, borge. Compare German Borg (“credit”).

borg c

1. (dated) credit

   På borg. ― On credit.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

borg

1. imperative of borge (“to guarantee, vouch for”)

• IPA^(key): /bɔrx/

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• Hyphenation: borg
• Rhymes: -ɔrx

From Middle Dutch borge, ultimately from the root of the verb bergen (“to protect, safeguard”).

borg m (plural borgen, no diminutive)

1. surety, bail

   Synonyms: borgtocht, cautie

2. guarantor
3. deposit

• borgtocht

• Negerhollands: borg
• → Indonesian: boreh
• → Papiamentu: bòrg, borg, borg
• → Sranan Tongo: borgu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

borg

1. singular past indicative of bergen
2. inflection of borgen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• IPA^(key): /pɔɹk/

From Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fort”). Related to berg (“mountain”), bjørg (“mountain side”).

borg f (genitive singular borgar, plural borgir)

1. castle, stronghold

Borrowed from Danish borg, from Middle Low German borg, borge. Compare German Borg (“credit”).

borg n (genitive singular borgs, uncountable)

1. bail
2. (dated) credit

   At keypa upp á borg.

   To buy on credit.

• (bail): borgan

From Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. Related to berg, bjarg (“rock, cliff”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrk/
• Rhymes: -ɔrk

borg f (genitive singular borgar, nominative plural borgir)

1. city
2. castle
3. rocky hill (with cliffs)

borg m (genitive singular boirg, nominative plural boirg)

1. alternative form of buirg (“borough”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “borg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Danish borg, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fort”). Inherited with masculine declension from Danish, the optional feminine declension was later borrowed from Nynorsk.

borg m or f (definite singular borga or borgen, indefinite plural borger, definite plural borgene)

1. a castle (fortified building)

• “borg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fort”).

borg f (definite singular borga, indefinite plural borger, definite plural borgene)

1. a castle

• “borg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Related to the verb borgian (“to borrow”), which see.

• IPA^(key): /borɡ/, [borˠɣ]

borg m

1. pledge

Strong a-stem:

• borgian

borg oblique singular, m (oblique plural bors, nominative singular bors, nominative plural borg)

1. alternative form of burg

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

borg f (genitive borgar, plural borgir)

1. a city, town (often fortified)
2. a castle
3. any fortified place

• Icelandic: borg
• Faroese: borg
• Norwegian Nynorsk: borg; (dialectal) børg
• Elfdalian: borg
• Old Swedish: borgh
  • Swedish: borg
• Old Danish: borgh, burg
  • Danish: borg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: borg
• Old Gutnish: burg, borg

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “borg”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• bórg (Łowicz)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Kashubian bórg.

• (Masovia):
  • (Łowicz) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔrk]

borg m inan

1. (Łowicz) synonym of kredyt

• Marzena Kozanecka-Zwierz, Magdalena Bartosiewicz, Renata Marciniak-Firadza, editors (2014), “borg”, in Gwara – Księżaków "język ojczysty" Dziedzictwo regionu łowickiego (in Polish), Łowicz: Muzeum w Łowiczu, →ISBN, page 22

From Old Swedish borgh (“fortress, city”), from Old Norse borg (also "bulwark", "wall'), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. Akin to English borough, burgh, Old Irish bri (hence the name Birgitta).

• IPA^(key): /bɔrj/

• Audio; “en borg”:

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borg c

1. a fortified castle (or city)

Compare slott, which leans more towards palace.

• slott (non-fortified)
• tinne
• vallgrav (“moat”)
• vindbrygga (“drawbridge”)

Unadapted borrowing from English, from cyborg.

borg c

1. a borg

• borg in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• borg in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)