different between inhabitant vs burgher

English

Alternative forms

• enhabitant (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitans, present participle of inhabito (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habit? (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habe? (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“seize, take, hold, have”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?hæ.b?.t?nt/
• Hyphenation: in?hab?i?tant

Noun

inhabitant (plural inhabitants)

1. Someone or thing who lives in a place.

Related terms

• inhabit

Translations

Adjective

inhabitant (not comparable)

1. Resident.

Latin

Verb

inhabitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of inhabit?

Old French

Noun

inhabitant m (oblique plural inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative singular inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative plural inhabitant)

1. inhabitant

Descendants

• ? English: inhabitant

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (inhabitant)

English

Alternative forms

• burger

Etymology

From Middle English burger, burgher, burghere, equivalent to burgh +? -er (“inhabitant of”). Likely merged with and reinforced by Middle Dutch burgher (Modern Dutch: burger); from Middle High German burger (Modern German: Bürger); from Old High German burg?ri (“inhabitant of a fortress”); derivative of burg (“fortress, citadel”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“fortified elevation”). Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??(r)
• Homophone: burger

Noun

burgher (plural burghers)

1. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
   1. A member of the medieval mercantile class.
   2. A citizen of a medieval city.
2. A prosperous member of the community; a middle class citizen (may connote complacency).

Derived terms

• burghermaster
• burghership

Related terms

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