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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gorďaninъ

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This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

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Etymology

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From *gȏrdъ (fortified settlement) +‎ *-janinъ.

Modern descendants have become semantic loans of French bourgeois, German Großbürger, English citizen - a meaning that is attested after the Renaissance.

Noun

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*gȏrďaninъ m

  1. townsman, burgher (resident of a fortified settlement: town, fortress, guard)

Declension

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Accent paradigm c.

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гражданин”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “горожанин”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gordjan(in)ъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 36
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гражданин”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 272