burgh

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈbʌɹə/ Rhymes: -ʌɹə Homophone: borough (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌɹoʊ/, /bɝɡ/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ Homophones: berg, burg === Noun === burgh (plural burghs) (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). (UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, [1] With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Brugh