![]() The perception of farmers (etymology 1) as being mannerless people has probably played a secondary role, too. Originally onomatopoetic, as is English burp. → Caribbean Javanese: bulman, bulmang, buru.melkboer ' milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer' ( in compounds ) A merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g.Synonym: bouwman Hyponyms: landbouwer, teler, tuinder, veehouder Cognate to Old English būr, ġebūr (whence English bower) and Old High German būr (whence German Bauer).īoer m ( plural boeren, diminutive boertje n, feminine boerin) In early modern Dutch these two dialectal forms were adopted as semantically distinguished words. ![]() The form boer is that of many eastern dialects including Limburgish, where Germanic -ū- has been retained as a back vowel. See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.įrom Middle Dutch bure, from Old Dutch *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz ( “ dweller, inhabitant ” ), thus originally the same as modern buur ( “ neighbour ” ).
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