burial
/ˈbɛɹi.əl/ noun
Forms burials buriall
- noun The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth. “His whole family was present at his burial.”
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Etymology
From Middle English biriel, a backformation from biriels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from from Old English byrġels, from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury + -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.]
- noun The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak.
Etymology [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “burial”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details