Etymology

birthplace

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Today it means: The location where a person or an animal was born. Full definition →

English place ← Middle English birthe ← Old Norse burðr
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰértis
  3. Proto-Germanic*burþiz
  4. Old Norseburðr
  5. Middle Englishbirthe
  6. Englishbirth
  7. Englishplace
  8. English todaybirthplace

From birth + place.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.