borgeis

Old French

Etymology

From borc (“fortified place, town”)

Noun

borgeis m (oblique plural borgeis, nominative singular borgeis, nominative plural borgeis)

town dweller

Descendants

English: burgess
French: bourgeois

Further reading

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (borgeis)
“borgeis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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