Searoburg

Old English

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Alternative forms

• Searoburh (non-normalized)

Etymology

searu (“armor”) +‎ burg (“fort”)

Proper noun

Searoburg m

1. A city in Wiltshire, England

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	Searoburg	—
accusative	Searoburg	—
genitive	Searobyrġ	—
dative	Searobyrġ	—

Descendants

• Middle English: Saresbury, Salesbiri, Salesbury, Sallesbury, Salisbiri, Salisburi, Salysbury, Sarrisbiri, Seresberi, Sereberi (Early Middle English)
  • English: Salisbury
  • → Latin: Sarisberia; Sarum (from the abbreviation Sar')
  • → Old French: Salesbire

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Searu-burh”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.