burgh

Senso (Inglese)

1. a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
2. (UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).

Concetti

municipio

sinonimi

borough

municipality

Traduzioni

δήμος

κωμόπολη

Gemeinde

Stadt

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αυτοδιοικούμενη πόλη

commune

burgh

gemeenschap

gemeente

municipi

município

vila

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concelho

burgh

municipio

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈbʌɹə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: borwe

Ereditato da inglese antico: burh

Affine olandese: burg

Affine francese: bourg

Affine tedesco: Burg

Affine persiano: برج

Affine svedese: borg

In summary

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”).
Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.

Frasi

The nearest equivalent in pre-Union Scotland was the royal burgh .

L'equivalente più vicino nella Scozia pre-sindacale era il Royal Burgh.