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responsibility for performance, payment, &c., by another, suretyship, security
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  • Borges andsaca (-u?)

    infictiatio, idem et abjuratio,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 27
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  • Feohlǽnung bútan borge

    ypotheca,

    • i. 21, 9
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  • Ðis synt þá men þe synt anburge (-byrge? cf. Icel. á-byrgð

    responsibility; or

    on borge ?) betwínon Eádgyfe abbedysse and Leófríce abbode æt þám lande æt stoctúne,

    • Cht. E. 256, 7
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  • Gilébdae borg

    concesserim vadimonium,

    • Txts. 106, 1090
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  • Ðá ðe berað on hira greádum ðá fatu tó ðǽm temple on hira ágenne borg

    qui ad templum vasa in sinu propriae sponsionis portant,

    • Past. 77, 7
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  • Ðú eart on borg begán ðínum friénd

    incidisti in manus proximi tut,

    • 193, 17
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  • Eóde þyses ealles on borh Ælfgár

    Alfgar became responsible for the performance of all this,

    • Cht. Th. 313, 3.
  • ¶ on, under borh sellan to lend on security :

    Geléned feoh vel on borh geseald

    res credita,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 70
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  • Gode on borgh geseald

    foenerata Domino,

    • 55, 21
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  • Ne þurfon gé wénan ꝥ gé ꝥ orceápe sellon, ꝥ gé under Drihtnes borh syllaþ.

    • Bl. H. 41, 13.
lending on security; what is so lent, loan, debt of a borrower :
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  • Borh

    foenus,

    borge

    fenore,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 35, 23, 24
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  • Borg,

    • 108, 42
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  • Borg vel lǽn

    fenus, i. lucrum, usura,

    • 148, 23
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  • Borge

    mutuo,

    • 56, 5.

  • ꝥ man ǽlcne borh águlde

    ut quicquid in mutuo ab aliquo acceptum erat restitueretur,

    • Cht. Th. 550, 26.

  • Þá þe on festendagum willað hiora borga manian (call in their loans) . . . gé ásécað ealle eówre borgas

    (loans, not debtors as in Dict. ),

    • Ll. Th. ii. 438, 33-36
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  • Scytte man mína borgas,

    • Cht. Th. 568, 19.

  • tó borge

    on loan ;

    tó borge sellan

    to lend:

    Tó borge

    (qui accipit) mutuum,

    • Kent. Gl. 817
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  • Se rihtwísa syleð óþrum tó borge

    Justus commodat,

    • Ps. Th. 36, 25
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  • Þá rihtwísan syllað ǽgþer ge tó borge ge tó gife,

    • 20.

  • Sum mon sealde óþrum scilling seolfres tó borge,

    • Shrn. 127, 26
      • .
of persons
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  • Sanctulus his borh

    (fide-jussor)

    wæs,

    • Gr. D. 253, 26
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  • Se godfæder wæs þæs cildes forspreca and borh wið God,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 50, 17
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[v.
N. E. D. borrow.
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v. friþ-, hýre-, in-, wer-borh.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “borh.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/40746.

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