byrgels

Old English

Alternative forms

berġels, birġels

Etymology

Equivalent to byrġan (“to bury”) +‎ -els.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbyr.jels/, [ˈbyrˠ.jeɫs]

Noun

byrgels m

place of burial, tomb

Declension

Declension of byrgels (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	byrġels	byrġelsas
accusative	byrġels	byrġelsas
genitive	byrġelses	byrġelsa
dative	byrġelse	byrġelsum

Descendants

Middle English: beriel, buriel, biriel, buriels, biriels
- English: burial
- Scots: buirial

Further reading

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “byrgels”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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