Etymology

-burgh

Today it means: Place name suffix, indicating the 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-burgh

From Old English burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of -borough and -bury.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishburh all →

boroughMiddlesbroughburleyburrowburghbroughDewsburybirkAldeburghCanonburyAldboroughBerry Pomeroy-boro-boroughburhBurphamBurrough on the HillHemingbroughOnibury

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