Words that come from Old English “burg”
400 words across 22 languages descend from Old English burg — including merely, mere, buried, Edinburgh, borrow, ban, Burton, borrowing.
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English (291)
- merely
- mere
- buried
- Edinburgh
- borrow
- ban
- Burton
- borrowing
- banner
- Canterbury
- mare
- Salisbury
- marsh
- borough
- Wilbur
- Bury
- deuce
- marshy
- burrow
- Wilberforce
- Shrewsbury
- Shropshire
- burrowing
- mermaid
- burgh
- burr
- Roxbury
- Roxburgh
- telomerase
- telomere
- Mash
- Banbury
- Kimber
- Tilbury
- Middlebury
- deuced
- marshland
- Jonesboro
- meer
- sarcomere
- maria
- mashup
- Musselburgh
- masher
- telomeric
- meres
- boro
- Maryborough
- deucedly
- Roxburghshire
- bannered
- Haileybury
- burh
- tilbury
- subtelomeric
- sarcomeric
- rebury
- burghal
- birk
- burrower
- marshside
- rhombomere
- paramere
- canterbury
- mermaiden
- neuromere
- bannerman
- neuromeric
- burier
- borrowability
- borroweth
- subtelomere
- headborough
- Burtonian
- deburr
- meare
- marshman
- branchiomeric
- metamere
- borrowable
- chromomere
- unban
- metamer
- micromere
- mashy
- buriest
- burieth
- bannerlike
- antimere
- reborrow
- rhombomeric
- marshiness
- marshlike
- boroughmonger
- unburiable
- nonborrowing
- macromere
- mashable
- interborough
- overborrow
- Banburismus
- bannerfish
- merestone
- mermaidlike
- bannerless
- borofluoride
- arthromere
- hypomere
- sarcomerogenesis
- marshwort
- epimere
- antimeric
- bannable
- burrhead
- Haileyburian
- buriable
- nonburrowing
- clotbur
- boroughwide
- borrowest
- burrfish
- burrweed
- marshscape
- boroglyceride
- hyalomere
- salisburia
- Burtonesque
- marshberry
- bannerette
- antitelomerase
- antiban
- burrowlike
- interneuromeric
- borocarbide
- merestead
- borrowee
- mermaidish
- chromomeric
- unborrowable
- banate
- preban
- unbannered
- Edithburgh
- unburrow
- parameric
- cytomere
- deciban
- burghmote
- aburton
- actinomere
- antimerism
- boroughmaster
- branchiomere
- burghbote
- cephalomere
- imbannered
- karyomere
- mareblob
- meresman
- spheromere
- uromere
- -bury
- -burg
- -borough
- -burgh
- bur-
- kickban
- instaban
- marshily
- unbannable
- banhammer
- permaban
- intratelomeric
- banninate
- boratrane
- banner cloud
- boroaluminate
- multiborough
- boromuscovite
- entomere
- green ban
- boroughholder
- boroughhood
- borosulfate
- borosulphate
- bannerware
- karyomeric
- extratelomeric
- a-burton
- unburyable
- buryable
- burrowless
- outborrow
- New Edinburgh
- borospherene
- macromeric
- shadowban
- banworthy
- underbury
- livermorium
- mermaidy
- marshlander
- boromagnesite
- fissban
- -boro
- marshless
- peritelomeric
- Burtonesquely
- centiban
- banner lord
- paleoburrow
- marsh mallow
- interchromomere
- mear
- mares
- Banat
- Livermore
- boros
- banning
- borrowings
- Livermere
- -gatran
- argatroban
- Roseboro
- acey-deucey
- Blackmere
- Goldsborough
- Kingsbury
- adenomere
- bebannered
- Brough
- Burpham
- Burtonsville
- Cashmoor
- Chesbrough
- Danbury
- Duxbury
- Edinburger
- embannered
- Kingsbury Episcopi
- Marbury
- Marlovian
- Marlow
- Mears
- Newburn
- Patmore
- Rushmere
- South Mere
- Sudbury
- telomeropathy
- Tewkesbury
- adenomeric
- antennomere
- aristomere
- autoban
- banatite
- bannerer
- bannerwise
- banwave
- bitelomeric
- boroarginine
- borocarbonate
- borocation
- borofloat
- borolysine
- boropeptide
- borophile
- borophosphate
- boroselenate
- borotellurate
- borotripeptide
- Boroughbridge
- boroughitis
- borrowback
- Borrowdale
- burrer
- Burrian
- burrish
- Burrism
- burrless
- burrlike
- burrowable
- Burtonport
- Bushbury
- Canterburian
- Canterburianism
- deuce coupe
- dungmere
- Edinbugger
- Edinburghian
- extraburghal
Old English (42)
- burh
- mere
- burgræden
- inburh
- mereliþend
- Scrobbesburh
- Searesbyriġ
- byriġ
- Cantwara burg
- Sċrobbesburh
- Sċrobbesbyriġscīr
- Cantwara byriġ
- Wilburg
- Cingesburg
- Cyningesburg
- Cantwarbyriġ
- *Edyn burg
- *Forstaburh
- *Luhhedeburh
- *Searesburh
- Baddanbyrġ
- Bannanburg
- Bebbanburh
- burhtun
- Glæstingaburg
- Æþelware byriġ
- Baddanburg
- burgealdor
- Burghelm
- Burgnoþ
- burgræced
- Burgstan
- burgtun
- burgwaras
- burgwaru
- Burgwine
- Burgþryþ
- burhgerefa
- Burhsige
- Ceolburg
- Cwenburg
- ealdorburg