burgh.
a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
Meaning & usage
a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cf. Strasbourg. Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.
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