burghとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɹə/
  • Homophone: borough
  • 韻: -ʌɹə
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝɡ/
  • 異形同音異義語: berg, burg
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ

名詞

burgh (複数形 burghs)

1. (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
2. (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.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 6,

     This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.

派生語

• Blythburgh
• Edinburgh
• royal burgh

接尾辞

-burgh

1. Place name suffix, indicating the site of a fortified place.

同意語

• -burg
• -borough
• -boro
• -bury

派生語

関連する語

• bur-