## Etymology
From Middle Dutch or Middle High German burger ('citizen of a town'), from burg ('fortified town'), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, with the English spelling shaped by analogy with borough.

## AI Etymology
Burgher comes from Middle Dutch or Middle High German burger ('citizen of a town'), from burg ('fortified town'), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, with the English spelling shaped by analogy with borough. The historical trail runs through burger in Middle Dutch and *burgz in Proto-Germanic. Used as a noun, burgher now means "a citizen of a town, especially a prosperous middle-class one", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as borough, burgess, and burg. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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