borgeis
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Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From burc (“fortified place, town”), from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortress”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrgʰ- (“fortified elevation”). More at bourgeois.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
borgeis oblique singular, m (oblique plural borgeis, nominative singular borgeis, nominative plural borgeis)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: bourgois, bourgeois
- French: bourgeois (see there for further descendants)
- Walloon: bordjeûs
- → Middle English: burgeis, burgeys, burges
Further reading[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (borgeis)
- “borgeis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.