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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Burger is short for Hamburger or Hamburg Steak a patty made of ground beef.

Hamburg, I think, means town like a burgh, an autonomous municipal corporation. so a bürgermeister is the chairman of the town council. A mayor.

~~Bürgerkrieg~~ Bürgerkrieg is a town conflict. A war between towns.

The best of times. The worst of times.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 11 months ago

Close enough

Burg in modern German means castle, but as part of city names I think your etymology sounds about right. Bürger, on the other hand, means citizen. So the Bürgermeister is chief citizen, and Bürgerkrieg literally is citizen war. A civil war.

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

the duality of the bürger

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kreig ≠ Krieg

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