Burg

Clipping of Burgundy.

Burg (countable and uncountable, plural Burgs)

1. Burgundy wine.
   • 2018, Joel Berman, “Rhône Vintages”, in So You Want to Be a Wine Merchant?, Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 98:

     Many 2006 Burgundy reds are drinking well now, the better 2007s, especially Chambolles, have been beautiful for a while, and the 2008s could be left alone for a year or so to resolve their tannins. I find many 2011 and 2012 Burgs seductive, and irresistible, just bursting with fruit.

• grub

• IPA^(key): /bʊʁk/, [bʊʁk], [bʊɐ̯k] (standard)
• IPA^(key): /b̥ʊrɡ̊/ (Swiss, Austro-Bavarian)
• IPA^(key): /bʊɐ̯ç/, [bʊɪ̯ç] (northern and central Germany; chiefly colloquial)

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From Middle High German burc, from Old High German burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰ-s, a form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”).

Compare Dutch burcht, English borough, ‑bury, Danish borg.

Burg f (genitive Burg, plural Burgen or Bürge)

1. castle, fortification
2. beaver lodge
3. sandcastle

The plural form Bürge is archaic and out of use.

The singular cases are from the original consonant stem declension, the plural from the i-stem used alternately from Old High German; the original dative plural Burgen now supplanting the other plural case forms.

• burgartig
• Bürger

• Schloss n

• “Burg” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Burg” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Burg” in Duden online
• Burg on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Probably not from etymology 1, as there has never been any kind of castle or fortification there, but rather from Proto-Slavic *bȏrgъ (“stack, rick”).

Burg n (proper noun, genitive Burgs or (optionally with an article) Burg)

1. a town, the administrative seat of Jerichower Land district, Saxony-Anhalt