verge

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /vɜːd͡ʒ/
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• Canada, General-American: /vɝd͡ʒ/
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• California, Southern: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• New-Zealand, Wales: /ˈvøːd͡ʒ/
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• Scotland: /ˈvɛɾd͡ʒ/
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• /veːd͡ʒ/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /vɛːd͡ʒ/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
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• CMU ARPABET: V ER1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory dominated", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Doublet of virga.

Borrowed from Latin vergō (“to bend, turn, tend toward, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *werg- (“to turn”), from a root *wer- (“to turn, bend”) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun.

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 權杖 /权杖 (quánzhàng) — rod or staff of office
• Dutch: roede — rod or staff of office
• Dutch: staf — rod or staff of office
• Finnish: valtikka — rod or staff of office
• Indonesian: ambang — rod or staff of office
• Russian: жезл (žezl) — rod or staff of office
• Russian: по́сох (pósox) — rod or staff of office
• Bulgarian: край (kraj) — edge or border
• Bulgarian: предел (predel) — edge or border
• Chinese Mandarin: 邊 /边 (biān) — edge or border
• Chinese Mandarin: 邊緣 /边缘 (biānyuán) — edge or border
• Czech: pokraj — edge or border
• Czech: okraj — edge or border
• Finnish: reuna — edge or border
• Finnish: parras — edge or border
• Finnish: raja — edge or border
• Finnish: ääri — edge or border
• Finnish: äyräs — edge or border
• Galician: beira — edge or border
• Georgian: კიდე (ḳide) — edge or border
• Georgian: ზღვარი (zɣvari) — edge or border
• Georgian: საზღვარი (sazɣvari) — edge or border
• Georgian: მიჯნა (miǯna) — edge or border
• Georgian: ნაპირი (naṗiri) — edge or border
• German: Rand — edge or border
• Indonesian: ambang — edge or border
• Irish: broinne — edge or border
• Irish: ciumhais — edge or border
• Portuguese: beira — edge or border
• Portuguese: beirada — edge or border
• Russian: грань (granʹ) — edge or border
• Russian: край (kraj) — edge or border
• Russian: грани́ца (graníca) — edge or border
• Russian: рубе́ж (rubéž) — edge or border
• Scottish Gaelic: iomall — edge or border
• Scottish Gaelic: oir — edge or border
• Spanish: arcén — edge or border
• Spanish: borde — edge or border
• Turkish: kenar — edge or border
• French: accotement — grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
• German: Seitenstreifen — grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
• Polish: gazon — grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
• Portuguese: orla — grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
• Russian: обо́чина (obóčina) — grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
• Vietnamese: ven (đường) — grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
• Bulgarian: предел (predel) — extreme limit
• Chinese Mandarin: 邊際 /边际 (biānjì) — extreme limit
• Chinese Mandarin: 界限 (jièxiàn) — extreme limit
• Finnish: ääriraja — extreme limit
• Finnish: parras — extreme limit
• Finnish: kynnys — extreme limit
• Galician: beira — extreme limit
• Galician: bordo — extreme limit
• Georgian: ზღვარი (zɣvari) — extreme limit
• Georgian: საზღვარი (sazɣvari) — extreme limit
• German: Rand — extreme limit
• German: äußerster Rand — extreme limit
• Indonesian: ambang — extreme limit
• Portuguese: beira — extreme limit
• Russian: грань (granʹ) — extreme limit
• Scottish Gaelic: iomall — extreme limit
• Scottish Gaelic: oir — extreme limit
• Spanish: borde — extreme limit
• Spanish: a punto — extreme limit
• Spanish: a un paso — extreme limit
• Finnish: ympärys — circumference: circle of a ring
• Bulgarian: клоня (klonja) — to come very close
• Bulgarian: приближавам се (približavam se) — to come very close
• Chinese Mandarin: 接近 (jiējìn) — to come very close
• Chinese Mandarin: 瀕臨 /濒临 (bīnlín) — to come very close
• Chinese Mandarin: 近乎 (jìnhū) — to come very close
• Dutch: grenzen aan — to come very close
• Finnish: lähennellä — to come very close
• Finnish: olla jonkin rajoilla — to come very close
• French: frôler — to come very close
• Galician: raiar — to come very close
• Galician: lindar — to come very close
• Galician: tocar — to come very close
• Georgian: ესაზღვრება (esazɣvreba) — to come very close
• German: grenzen an — to come very close
• German: streifen an — to come very close
• Indonesian: ambang — to come very close
• Norwegian Nynorsk: streifa på — to come very close
• Norwegian Nynorsk: snerta på — to come very close
• Portuguese: beirar — to come very close
• Russian: грани́чить с (graníčitʹ s) — to come very close
• Spanish: rayar — to come very close
• Spanish: rozarse — to come very close
• Spanish: acercarse — to come very close
• Spanish: aproximarse — to come very close