• Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Makes sense

    Burger means “burgh” which relates to the term “town”

    Now, if we stretch the etymological roots and meaning from “town” to “city” to “citizen” (fr. “citoyen”) to “civil”, thus, we abstract it and simplify it to such terms…

    And krieg just means “war”

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

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      “Krieg” means generally “war” yes , but literally translated it means “to get” , that aspect is missing in the english

      And Bürger is not only from the town , but he himself is also "the Protected one , or the one that has Protection (lat.burga: Protection).