Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰergʰ- - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Article Images

*bʰergʰ-^[1]

to safeguard, to protect
to preserve

*bʰérgʰ-(e)-ti (root present)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *bergtei (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *berganą (see there for further descendants)

*bʰr̥gʰ-yé-ti (ye-present)
- Proto-Germanic: *burgijaną (see there for further descendants)

bʰorgʰ-o-
- Proto-Slavic: *borgъ
  - Polish: bróg

Unsorted formations:
- Old Irish: commairge
- Proto-Germanic: *burgijô
  - Old English: byrga
  - Old Saxon: burgio
  - Old High German: burgeo
    - Middle High German: bürge
      - German: Bürge
      - Luxembourgish: Bierg
- >? English: burrow
- Ossetian: ӕмbӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”)^[2]

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*burʒēnan - *burʒōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 42