borgeis
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom burc (“fortified place, town”), from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortress”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰs (“fortified elevation”). More at bourgeois.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editborgeis oblique singular, m (oblique plural borgeis, nominative singular borgeis, nominative plural borgeis)
Descendants
edit- → Middle Armenian: բուրճէս (burčēs), պուռճէս (puṙčēs)
- 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.