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)

German (39)

Old English (18)

Dutch (16)

French (13)

Middle English (13)

Japanese (8)

Finnish (6)

Russian (5)

Esperanto (5)

Luxembourgish (5)

Old High German (4)

Latvian (4)

Polish (4)

Irish (3)

Portuguese (3)

Indonesian (2)

Czech (2)

Latin (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Scots (2)

Old French (2)

Middle High German (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Yiddish (1)

Swedish (1)

Catalan (1)

Armenian (1)

Arabic (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Italian (1)

Danish (1)

Ido (1)

Assamese (1)

Hindi (1)

Spanish (1)

Old Saxon (1)