borg

Contraction of "cybernetic organism", via cyborg

• IPA^(key): /bɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)ɡ

borg (plural borgs)

1. 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

• 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): /bɔrv/, [b̥ɒːˀw]

From Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fort”). Related to 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 borge (“to guarantee, vouch for”).

borg

1. imperative of borge

• IPA^(key): /bɔrx/

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• Hyphenation: borg
• Rhymes: -ɔrx

From Middle Dutch borge.

borg m (plural borgen)

1. surety, bail

   Synonyms: borgtocht, cautie

2. guarantor
3. deposit

• borgtocht

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borg

1. singular past indicative of bergen
2. first-person singular present indicative of borgen
3. imperative of borgen

• 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. a rocky hill (with cliffs)

borg m (genitive singular boirg, nominative plural boirg)

1. Alternative form of buirg (“borough”)

• "borg" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /borɡ/, [borˠx]

borg m (nominative plural borgas)

1. pledge

From Proto-Germanic *burgz, whence also Old English burh (English borough), Old Saxon and Old High German burg (German Burg), Frankish *burg, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 (baurgs). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”). Related to bjarg.

borg f (genitive borgar, plural borgir)

1. A city, town (often fortified)
2. A castle
3. Any fortified place

• Danish: borg
• Elfdalian: borg
• Faroese: borg
• Icelandic: borg
• Norwegian: borg
• Old Swedish: borgh
  • Swedish: 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)

• slott (non-fortified)

Borrowed from English, from cyborg.

borg c

1. a borg