burgwarasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From burg (“-city”) +‎ -ware (“residents”)

発音

• IPA: /ˈburxˌwɑ.rɑs/, [ˈburˠxˌwɑ.rɑs]

名詞

burgwaras m

1. citizens, people who live in a city
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Ȳþde swā þisne eardġeard · ælda Sċyppend
     oþþæt burgwara · breahtma lēase
     eald enta ġeweorc · īdlu stōdon.

     Thus, Creator of men was destroying this world
     until works of old giants, lacking of
     citizens' noises, stood empty.

語形変化

関連する語

• burgwaru

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “burg-waran”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.