Burg

Clipping of Burgundy.

Burg (countable and uncountable, plural Burgs)

1. Burgundy wine.
   • 2018, Joel Berman, “Rhône Vintages”, in So You Want to Be a Wine Merchant?, Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 98:

     Many 2006 Burgundy reds are drinking well now, the better 2007s, especially Chambolles, have been beautiful for a while, and the 2008s could be left alone for a year or so to resolve their tannins. I find many 2011 and 2012 Burgs seductive, and irresistible, just bursting with fruit.

• grub

• IPA^(key): /bʊʁk/, [bʊʁk], [bʊɐ̯k] (standard)
• IPA^(key): /bʊɐ̯ç/, [bʊɪ̯ç] (northern and central Germany; chiefly colloquial)

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From Old High German burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰ-s, a form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”).

Compare Dutch burcht, English borough, ‑bury, Danish borg.

Burg f (genitive Burg, plural Burgen or Bürge)

1. castle, fortification
2. beaver lodge
3. sandcastle

The plural form Bürge is archaic and out of use.

• burgartig
• Bürger

• Schloss n

• “Burg” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Burg” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Burg” in Duden online
• Burg on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Probably not from etymology 1, as there has never been any kind of castle or fortification there, but rather from Proto-Slavic *bȏrgъ (“stack, rick”).

Burg n (proper noun, genitive Burgs or (optionally with an article) Burg)

1. A town, the administrative seat of Jerichower Land district, Saxony-Anhalt