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explaining the civil war to americans: "imagine if slaves had no burger" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] itslilith 18 points 2 weeks 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.