The story
- Old English · inherited frominborh“bail, security in cases of theft, a security required in cases where property had been stolen”
- Middle English · inherited frominborȝ“bail”
- English todayinborrow
From Middle English inborȝ (“bail”), from Old English inborh (“bail, security in cases of theft, a security required in cases where property had been stolen”), from in- + borh, borg (“a security, pledge, loan, bail; payment”), equivalent to in- + borrow. Related to Old English borgian (“to borrow; lend; be surety for”). More at borrow.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.