burgerin
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From burger (“civilian”) + -in (“suffix indicating femininity”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]burgerin f (plural burgerinnen, diminutive burgerinnetje n, masculine burger)
- (archaic) female citizen
- (archaic) female bourgeois
- 1671, De schijndeugd en huichelrij der Franse burgerinnen:
- Weet, dat ik geen draen zal spinnen,
Tegen kuise burgerinnen,
Welkers hart na wijsheid haakt,
En in liefde brand [sic] en blaakt.- Know that I will not spin threads,
Against chaste female civilians,
Whose heart hooks to wisdom,
And burns and glows in love.
- Know that I will not spin threads,
Finnish
[edit]Noun
[edit]burgerin