Definitions
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- noun Scotland A
tomb ;sepulchre . - noun Scotland A
barrow ;mound ;tumulus ; a kind offortification . - noun Scotland A
camp ;hill -fort .
Etymologies
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From Middle English bürȝen, from Old English byrgen, burgen ("burying-place, grave, sepulchre, tomb, burial"), from Proto-Germanic *burginnijō (“burial”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhergh- (“to shelter, protect, save, preserve”). Related to Old English byrgan ("to raise a mound, hide, bury, inter"). More at bury.
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Examples
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Jim has brung Massa Tom's body all dat long ways home so dat he can be buried in de family burian ground.
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The natives call all these rank weeds, useless for pasture, _burian_, and, with the dry dung of the flocks, this constitutes all the fuel they possess.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 Various 1841
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