From Dutch/Afrikaans, a person who stays or remains; one who remains in a place.
Dutch word 'blijver' from 'blijven' (to stay/remain) plus '-er' agent suffix, borrowed into English particularly in South African contexts.
This Dutch word reveals how languages name concepts based on what matters to their speakers—a language would preserve a word for 'someone who stays' only if permanence itself was culturally significant.
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