burg

Meaning

Noun

• A city or town.
• A fortified town in medieval Europe.
• burger

Origin

• The historical sense is from Late Latin burgus, from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz ("borough, fortification"). borough, Brough, burgh, burh, and bury. Also compare burgess.
• The modern sense may have been formed in part by analogy with the many North American city names that are suffixed with -burg (a number of which in the Eastern United States once used -burgh instead. See burgh.), as well as being formed in part due to the German Burg.