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Börje is an old Swedish male name. It is a cognate of Birger;Elof Hellquist, ''Svensk etymologisk ordbok''. Lund 1922. Börje is the form that has developed naturally according to the
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laws of Swedish, whilst Birger is a literary form that has been common since the nineteenth century, when archaic forms of names became fashionable.


Etymology

The
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of Börje is uncertain. Probably it is a short form of names beginning with ''Berg-''. Less likely it means "helper", from the verb ''bärga''. It has also been suggested that it is derived from the name element ''-ger'' (spear).


Sound changes

Börje developed from
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''Birghir'' which was pronounced with a
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£ irÉ£ir The voiced velar fricative was spelled ⟨gh⟩ i Old SwedishElias Wessén, ''Svensk sprÃ¥khistoria I: Ljudlära och ordböjningslära''. Fourth edition. Stockholm 1955. and changed to /j/ after /r/ in modern Svenska. Börje is an ija-stem.Ragnvald Iversen, ''Norrøn grammatikk''. Seventh edition, revised by Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen. Oslo 1973. Ija-stems ended in -ir i Old Swedish, which regularly developed into a word final -e in modern Swedish. This explains why Börje has accent 2 today: since the synkope at the transition from
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to Norse the name has been disyllabic, which leads to a word being pronounced with the grave accent in modern Swedish. Hence, the vowel in the second syllable of old Swedish ''Birghir'' or ''Birgher'' was no svarabhakti vowel like the ''-e-'' in modern Swedish words such as the a-stem ''dager'', which at one stage was monosyllabic (dagr) and therefore has accent 1. The first vowel ''-i-'' of ''Birghir'' between a ''b'' and an ''r'' changed into an ''-y-'' and then into an ''-ö-''. The vowel was ''-i-'' labialised by the influence of the initial /b/.


The form ''Birger''

The form ''Birger'' has been revived from the old language within the last 200 years. This "revived" form has accent 1, like an a-stem with a
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suffix consisting of the svarabhakti-vowel ''-e-'' ''plus -r''. Swedish names revived during romanticism commonly take a historically unjustified pronunciation.


Popularity

Börje was very common as a given name in 1930–49. Today it is almost never given as a first name that is used to address the person. In 2017 approximately 7 500 persons had the name as their first name or name of address. Name day in Sweden: 9 June).


People with the given name Börje

* Börje Ahlstedt (born 1939), Swedish actor * Börje Ekedahl (1928–2006), Swedish bobsledder * Börje Ekholm (born 1963), Swedish business executive, CEO of Ericsson * Börje Fredriksson (1937–1968), Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist * Börje Haraldsson (born 1957), Swedish physician and researcher * Börje Hörnlund (born 1935), Swedish politician * Börje Jansson (born 1952), Swedish motorcycle road racer * Börje Leander (1918–2003), Swedish footballer *
Börje Salming Anders Börje Salming ( ; 17 April 1951 – 24 November 2022) was a Swedish ice hockey player. He was a defenceman who played professionally for 23 seasons, for the clubs Brynäs IF, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, and AIK Hockey, AIK. H ...
(1951–2022), Swedish ice hockey player * Börje Vestlund (1960–2017), Swedish social democratic politician *
Börje-Bengt Hedblom Börje-Bengt Hedblom was a Swedish bobsledder who competed from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1961 FIBT World Championships in Lake Placid, New York. ReferencesBobsleigh four-man wo ...
, Swedish bobsledder * Lars-Börje Eriksson (born 1966), Swedish Alpine skier * Quorthon (Thomas Börje Forsberg) (1966–2004), Swedish songwriter and musician


References

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