köken: 19th century, from Bürger (“citizen”) + Steig (“footpath”). Introduced as a puristic alternative to then-predominant Trottoir (therefore unusual in Switzerland, like other purisms of that era).
aile: die Bürgersteige hochklappen
Auch auf dem Bürgersteig muss man immer die Augen auf halten.
pavement, footpath, sidewalk · stoop, platform before a (major) door into a building, doorstep
çekim: çoğul stoepen
eş: bordes, trottoir, voetpad, vonder, oprit
köken: From Middle Dutch stoep, stoope, from Old Dutch *stōpa, from Proto-West Germanic *stōpā, related to the verb *stappjan (“to tread, step”). Cognate to German Low German Stuuf, German Stufe, Old English stōpel (“footprint”).
köken: From Vulgar Latin calciāta (“paved road”), feminine of calciātus (“paved with limestone”), from Latin calcō (“trample”), from Latin calx (“limestone”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish calzada and French chaussée.
köken: From Old Danish forta, fortæ (“space around a horse”), the same word as forte. A compound of for- and Old Norse tá n (“path”), from Proto-Germanic *tanhwą. Cf. Finnish tanhua (“stockyard”), which was borrowed from Proto-Norse or Proto-Germanic. The noun itself is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“tough”).