Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *burgzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_burgz
Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.
*bʰérǵʰ-ssomething high up, fortifiedbríhill
nounfeminineconsonant stemfortification, strongholdcityFrom pre-Germanic *bʰr̥ǵʰ-s, from a zero-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰ-s (‘something high up, fortified’), from root *bʰergʰ- (‘to safeguard, to protect; to preserve’). Cognates are Old Irish brí (‘hill’) and Chechen барз (barz, ‘hill, hillock, mound’).