borgensman

== Swedish == === Etymology === borgen (“surety”) +‎ -s- +‎ man. Compare Icelandic borganarmaðr. === Noun === borgensman c (law) surety, guarantor (one who undertakes to pay money in the event that the principal fails to do so) ==== Declension ==== === References === “borgensman”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “borgensman”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “borgensman”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) borgensman in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)