English Explanatory Dictionary

gebur

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Anglo-Saxon law, the owner of an allotment or yard-land, usually consisting of 30 acres; a villein.

Word forms

gebur geburs

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English ġebūr (“dweller, husbandman, farmer, countryman, boor”), from Proto-West Germanic *gabūr, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *būraz (“house, room, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, wax, grow”). More at bower, boor.

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