Burgeiss
Old Norse Dictionary - burgeiss
Meaning of Old Norse word "burgeiss"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- burgeiss
- m. [Fr. bourgeois; Chaucer burgeis; a for. word, of Teut. origin, from burg]:—a burgess, Fas. iii. 358: in mod. usage, a big man.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᚢᚱᚴᛁᛁᛋᛋ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- for.
- foreign.
- Fr.
- French in etymologies.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- Teut.
- Teutonic.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fas.
- Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
- Fr.
- Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.