borg

• IPA^(key): /bɔː(ɹ)ɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡ

Clipping of cyborg. 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

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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 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)

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

Declension of borg
f2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	borg	borgin	borgir	borgirnar
accusative	borg	borgina	borgir	borgirnar
dative	borg	borgini	borgum	borgunum
genitive	borgar	borgarinnar	borga	borganna

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.

Declension of borg (singular only)
n3s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	borg	borgið
accusative	borg	borgið
dative	borgi	borginum
genitive	borgs	borgsins

• (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. a rocky hill (with cliffs)

Declension of borg
f-s2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	borg	borgin	borgir	borgirnar
accusative	borg	borgina	borgir	borgirnar
dative	borg	borginni	borgum	borgunum
genitive	borgar	borgarinnar	borga	borganna

borg m (genitive singular boirg, nominative plural boirg)

1. Alternative form of buirg (“borough”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
borg	bhorg	mborg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• 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

• borgian

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
• Danish: borg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: borg
• Old Gutnish: burg, borg

• “borg”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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).

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borg c

1. a fortified castle (or city)

Compare slott, which leans more towards palace.

• slott (non-fortified)
• tinne

Unadapted borrowing from English, from cyborg.

borg c

1. a borg

• borg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• borg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• borg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• borg in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)