Words that come from Proto-West Germanic “burg”
400 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic burg — including merely, mere, borrow, Burton, borrowing, bourgeois, mare, Salisbury.
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English (225)
- merely
- mere
- borrow
- Burton
- borrowing
- bourgeois
- mare
- Salisbury
- marsh
- bourgeoisie
- Luxembourg
- borough
- Wilbur
- deuce
- marshy
- burrow
- Wilberforce
- Shrewsbury
- Freiburg
- Shropshire
- Salzburg
- burrowing
- mermaid
- Borg
- burgh
- burr
- Roxbury
- telomerase
- telomere
- Homburg
- Mash
- Kimber
- Tilbury
- deuced
- marshland
- Jonesboro
- meer
- sarcomere
- maria
- mashup
- Musselburgh
- masher
- bourgeoise
- telomeric
- meres
- boro
- Maryborough
- deucedly
- Luxembourgish
- tilbury
- bobo
- subtelomeric
- sarcomeric
- nonbourgeois
- borg
- embourgeoisement
- burghal
- birk
- burrower
- marshside
- antibourgeois
- rhombomere
- paramere
- mermaiden
- burgrave
- neuromere
- neuromeric
- borrowability
- bourgeoisification
- borroweth
- subtelomere
- headborough
- Luxembourgian
- Burtonian
- deburr
- meare
- Luxembourger
- booboisie
- marshman
- branchiomeric
- metamere
- borrowable
- chromomere
- metamer
- micromere
- postbourgeois
- mashy
- antimere
- reborrow
- rhombomeric
- marshiness
- marshlike
- boroughmonger
- nonborrowing
- macromere
- mashable
- interborough
- overborrow
- merestone
- mermaidlike
- borofluoride
- arthromere
- hypomere
- bourgie
- sarcomerogenesis
- marshwort
- bushwah
- epimere
- antimeric
- burrhead
- burggrave
- nonburrowing
- clotbur
- boroughwide
- borrowest
- burrfish
- bourgeoisify
- burrweed
- marshscape
- boroglyceride
- hyalomere
- unbourgeois
- salisburia
- Burtonesque
- marshberry
- bourgeoisness
- Salzburgian
- antitelomerase
- hipoisie
- burrowlike
- interneuromeric
- borocarbide
- merestead
- borrowee
- mermaidish
- chromomeric
- unborrowable
- Edithburgh
- unburrow
- parameric
- cytomere
- burghmote
- aburton
- actinomere
- antimerism
- boroughmaster
- branchiomere
- burghbote
- cephalomere
- karyomere
- mareblob
- meresman
- spheromere
- uromere
- -bury
- Letzeburgesh
- comprador bourgeoisie
- -borough
- -burgh
- bur-
- marshily
- intratelomeric
- boratrane
- boroaluminate
- multiborough
- boromuscovite
- entomere
- boroughholder
- boroughhood
- borosulfate
- borosulphate
- karyomeric
- extratelomeric
- a-burton
- narcobourgeoisie
- narcobourgeois
- burrowless
- outborrow
- borospherene
- macromeric
- livermorium
- mermaidy
- marshlander
- boromagnesite
- -boro
- marshless
- de-bourgeoisify
- Homburged
- peritelomeric
- Burtonesquely
- burgravine
- paleoburrow
- marsh mallow
- interchromomere
- mear
- mares
- Brandenburg
- Livermore
- Bobo
- boros
- borrowings
- Livermere
- acey-deucey
- Blackmere
- Kingsbury
- adenomere
- Brough
- Burpham
- Burtonsville
- Cashmoor
- Danbury
- Kingsbury Episcopi
- Marbury
- Marlovian
- Marlow
- Mears
- Newburn
- Patmore
- Rushmere
- South Mere
- Sudbury
- telomeropathy
- Tewkesbury
- adenomeric
- antennomere
German (39)
- Burg
- Burggraf
- burgähnlich
- salzburgerisch
- Salzburger
- Salzburg
- Burggräfin
- Luxemburg
- Brandenburg
- Siebenbürgen
- Bourgeoisie
- Luxemburgerin
- Luxemburger
- Burkhard
- Hüpfburg
- Wagenburg
- Freiburger
- Freiburg
- Walpurga
- brandenburgisch
- salzburgisch
- bourgeois
- burg
- Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
- Burghard
- Walburg
- Charlottenburg
- Bettenburg
- Burkhart
- Donaueschingen
- Donaueschinger
- Homburger
- Höhenburg
- Konfektburg
- Ludwigsburg
- Neuburg
- Neuburger
- Niederungsburg
- Siebenbürger