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borrow

/ˈbɒˌɹəʊ/BO-roh
/ˈbɑˌɹoʊ/BAH-roh

Meaninggiving a pledge, borrowing

Common meaning: to take on loan

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√BHARK or BHRAK‘shut in, stop up, cram’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 233, p. 738 · scan
  2. Old EnglishborgiansourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishborwensource
  4. Englishborrow‘to take on loan’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Old English borgian ‘giving a pledge, borrowing’.

Did you know (The earlier word…): our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry BORROW, p. 71 · dictionary scan

Did you know (To borrow was…): our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry BORROW, p. 71 · dictionary scan; Bosworth & Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), entry borgian, p. 118 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • borgian Old English “giving a pledge, borrowing”

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