Etymology

-borough

Today it means: Placename suffix, indicated site of a fortified place. Full definition →

Old English burh
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromburh“fortified place”
  2. English today-borough

From borough, from Old English burh (“fortified place”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishburh all →

boroughMiddlesbroughburleyburrowburghbroughDewsburybirkAldeburghCanonburyAldboroughBerry Pomeroy-boro-burghburhBurphamBurrough on the HillHemingbroughOnibury

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