What do the words "Muslim" and "Kafir" mean?

A previous question asked what does the word "islam" mean?

The answer was unambiguous: submit in Arabic means Islam.

In the spirit of this previous excellent answer, what do the Arabic words Muslim and Kafir mean? In particular, I would like to know the definite meanings of these words, as well as the general meaning of the roots from which they are derived.

In parallel (and assuming it's different), what does the actual Arabic word for "non-Muslim/non-believer" look like? Is it intellectually honest (unbiased) to translate Kafir thus?

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