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1 borga
(að), v. to be a surety, guarantee, for; borga e-m e-t, to guarantee something to one; borga fyrir en, to become bound for, to be security for (anza ek lítt, þóti þú játir at lúka, ef engi borgar fyrir þik).* * *að, [Engl. to borrow and bargain; Germ. borgen; related to byrgja and bjarga; O. H. G. porgen only means parcere, spondere, not mutuare. In Icel. the word is of foreign origin; the indigenous expressions are, lána, ljá, to lend; gjalda, to pay; selja, veðja, to bail, etc.; the word only occurs in later and theol. writers]:—to bail; vil ek b. fyrir Árna biskup með mínum peningum, Bs. i. 770 (thrice): now obsolete in this sense.2. to pay, as in Matth. xviii. 25; but in old writers this sense hardly occurs.
См. также в других словарях:
Borgen — 1. Borg das halb, so wirst nit betrogen. Lat.: Summa cape, et medium habebis. (Sutor, 33.) 2. Borg vil, vnd lass dich nichts dawren, lauff aus der Statt vnd guck vber die mawren. – Henisch, 455. 3. Borge welt bezahlt sîn. (Aachen.) – Firmenich, I … Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon
