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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Old English byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”) (whence borough); doublet of -borough and -burg.
Due to the collapse of the case system between Old and Middle English, many placenames retain a fossilized dative form, as places would most commonly have been invoked in the dative (after a preposition in, at, to etc.).
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