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-bury

suffix
/-bɹi/UK/-bɹi/

Etymology

From Old English byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”) (whence borough); doublet of -borough and -burg. Due to the collapse of the case system between Old and Middle English, many placenames retain a fossilized dative form, as places would most commonly have been invoked in the dative (after a preposition in, at, to etc.).

  1. inherited from byriġ

Definitions

  1. A placename suffix indicating a fortified place.

    • Some of these hilltops – Sidbury, Quarley, Danebury and Woolbury – were later, in the sixth and fifth centuries, appropriated for the building of hillforts.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA