borgeis
Old French
Alternative forms
- borjois, burgeis, burgeys, burgois, burgeois, bourgois
Etymology
From burc (“fortified place, town”), from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortress”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrgʰ- (“fortified elevation”). More at bourgeois.
Pronunciation
- (archaic) IPA(key): /burˈdʒei̯s/
- (classical) IPA(key): /burˈdʒoi̯s/
- (late) IPA(key): /burˈʒo̯es/
Noun
borgeis m (oblique plural borgeis, nominative singular borgeis, nominative plural borgeis)
- town-dweller; someone who lives in an urban area
Descendants
- Middle French: bourgois, bourgeois
- French: bourgeois (see there for further descendants)
- Walloon: bordjeûs
- → Middle English: burgeis, burgeys, burges
- English: burgess
- → Irish: buirgéis
- Scots: burges
- → Welsh: bwrdais
Further reading
- 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.