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- BURG
- In all the Teutonic languages signifies a hill, a fortification, tower, castle, house, city, and nearly so in the Armoric and Welsh.
- BURLEIGH
- Local. Burh, Saxon, is the same as burg, a city, castle, house, or tower; in composition, it signifies defense; high, a low place, opposed to a place higher, the same as ley, a meadow, a pasture. Burly, swelled, bulky, boisterous.
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Source : An etymological dictionary of family and Christian names - By William Arthur - 1857.
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