bury
Meanings
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To kill or murder.
- To outlive.
- To place in the ground.
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- To overwhelm.
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To put an end to; to abandon.
- To score (a goal).
- To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- A burrow.
- A borough; a manor
- A place in England:
- A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2883).
- A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester.
- A hamlet in Brompton Regis parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9427).
- A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0113).
- Ellipsis of Bury St Edmunds.
- A village in Péruwelz municipality, Hainaut province, Belgium.
- A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
- A municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *burgijaną Proto-West Germanic *burgijan Old English byrġan Middle English birien English bury Middle English birien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *burgijan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to keep safe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to defend, protect”). Cognate with Icelandic byrgja (“to cover, shut; to hold in”); West Frisian bergje (“to keep”), German bergen (“to save/rescue something”), Danish bjerge (“to save/rescue something or somebody”); also Eastern Lithuanian bir̃ginti (“to save, spare”), Russian бере́чь (beréčʹ, “to spare”), Ossetian ӕмбӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”). The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects. Compare typologically Russian хорони́ть (xoronítʹ) (akin to храни́ть (xranítʹ).