Noun: burcht
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like burcht
motiveering,
Duitse herdershond,
urilift,
vervolmaking,
elektrische spanning,
ovenfriet,
winteravond,
weervrouw,
besteding,
bloemenveiling,
vertakking,
tintinofiel,
synaps,
olieraffinaderij,
vliegtuigkaping,
sawaslang,
verzetting,
afrondfout,
druivenoogst,
wintermaand, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch borcht / burcht, alteration of earlier Middle Dutch burch / borch (surviving as modern Dutch burg), from Old Dutch burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”). The final -t is seemingly random, but not unheard of; such "paragogic" extensions occur occasionally in Dutch following a fricative or liquid word-final consonant. Compare for example hulst, kroost, rijst and arend.
2. Cognate with German Burg, English borough, -bury, burrow, Danish borg.
3. For sense two, compare English burrow. See: German Nouns '
Burg', English Nouns '
borough', Danish Nouns '
borg'.
Verbs referencing "burcht"
English Nouns
borough, German Nouns
Burg.
Translations