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> burgier
somebody probably mis-read the "i" as an "l".
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Augmented my much edited posting above. From the OED1: "The related burglary is in legal A[nglo]F[rench] burlarie in Anglo-Latin burgaria, burgeria (early 13 c.), for which burglaria is found in the 16th c. The origin of the intrusive l in burglator, burglaria, and the corresponding Eng. forms is not clear; but the notion of Lambarde (1581) and later writers that the ending - lar represents AF ler-s, laroun (:- L. latro, latronem) thief, is contrary to the evidence." It seems to me from the French and Latin forms that the l came about from dissimilation ( link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Really interesting lines of developement. Showing that it counts for most parts of the world that people chose the high places to build their fortresses. And those who ended up in the swamps made their modest inselbergs by elevating the earth by hand. link I've read both posts and I understand 98 % of it. ( you say burglator did not lead to ladro.)
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you say burglator did not lead to ladro
The editor in the OED1 was saying that the l in burgaltor was not related to the l in Latin latro. But Italian ladro did come from the Latin word.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I can't remember the term for a crater-like hole in the ground which is the product of lava flowing around a hill (a sand hill, in the case of the hole I'm thinking of), which the wind then empties, leaving the hole. They look like craters but they're seldom as regularly round. There's a name for such, but I'm hanged if I can remember it or find it.
Anyone?
Thanks.
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I don't remember learning about such a phenomenon, Albinoni, but I only took a couple of geology courses. You might try either a geology dictionary (Google gives several) or possibly an online encyclopedia about effects of lava.
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