Talk:burg

Burg may be of Arabi origin: Borj (برج) which means a building with turrets. It can mean a fortified small town.
 * The timing looks wrong. 🇨🇬 looks thoroughly plausible, and 🇨🇬 seems like it should date to before any substantial contact between Arabs and Europeans. My guess is that the Arabic and the Proto-Germanic are both ultimately from the same original source, which may be 🇨🇬, but tracing the path of vocabulary which is of a type so susceptible to borrowing and which goes back so far is quite problematic. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:49, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The Arabic word was probably borrowed from Greek, see the etymology section at . --Florian Blaschke (talk) 15:02, 4 April 2019 (UTC)