Borgian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - borgian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- borgian
- Add: I. to borrow :-- Ǽfic borgiað þá synfullan, and nǽfre ne gyldað mutuatur peccator, et non commodat, Ps. Th. 36, 20. II. to lend. Cf. borgiend :-- Borgedan commodarent, Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 8. III. to be surety, bail for. Cf. byrg(e)a, and Icel. borga fyrir to be bail for :-- Borgiendre sequestra, An. Ox. 3812.