Bury
/ˈbɛri/noun
To place a dead body in the ground or to hide something under earth or another material.
Did you know?Bury comes from Old English byrgan, a Germanic word meaning to conceal or inter a body, and its deeper history is linked to the same ancient root behind ideas of protection and enclosure.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bhergh-
“to hide, protect, or enclose”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*burgjaną
“to protect, shelter, or bury”
Old English
English
byrgan
“to bury, inter, or conceal”
Middle English
English
burien / birien
“to bury a dead body”
Modern English
English
bury
“to place in the ground after death or to conceal under something”