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## Burg -Berg, burrow -barrow The modern German words Berg and Burg, corresponding to English 'barrow\* and 'borough' and the Danish bjerg and borg are phonetically traceable to a single root: \*bhergh and its zero form \*bhrgh l . One finds however considerable difference in the area of meaning, covered in modern times, by the derivatives of \*bhergh and those of \*bhrgh, the former designating an aspect of the landscape, an elevation of earth and stone, a hill or mountain (in English specifically a grave hill) and the latter a castle or fortress and, in English, a civic community, thus a manmade place of habitation. Also traceable to the \*bhergh form is the verb bergen (German), bjaerge, bärga (Danish and Swedish): 'to shelter, save, protect'. It is natural to assume the root which underlies the modern word for 'hill' to have conveyed the idea of 'height', and the basic concept from which came the words for a place of habitation to have contained the idea of 'protection'; the idea of 'sheltering' and 'protecting' would appear to be basic also to the verb (bergen, bjserge). Scholars therefore have postulated two roots, identical in form, but divergent in meaning; some have groupe
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- Publisher
- Saur, K. G., Verlag. ein Imprint der Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- DE
- ISBN
- 9783110243239
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)