Etymology

gebur

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Today it means: In Anglo-Saxon law, the owner of an allotment or yard-land, usually consisting of 30 acres; a villein. Full definition →

Old English ġebūr ← Proto-West Germanic *gabūr ← Proto-Germanic *ga-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bʰew-“to swell, wax, grow”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*ga-
  3. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*gabūr
  4. Old English · learned borrowing fromġebūr“dweller, husbandman, farmer, countryman, boor”
  5. English todaygebur

Learned borrowing from Old English ġebūr (“dweller, husbandman, farmer, countryman, boor”), from Proto-West Germanic *gabūr, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *būraz (“house, room, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, wax, grow”). More at bower, boor.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishġebūr all →

bor

Proto-Germanic*ga- all →

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Proto-Indo-European*bʰew- all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.