byrgels

Old English

Alternative forms

• berġels, birġels

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbyr.jels/, [ˈbyrˠ.jeɫs]

Noun

byrgels m

1. place of burial, tomb

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	byrġels	byrġelsas
accusative	byrġels	byrġelsas
genitive	byrġelses	byrġelsa
dative	byrġelse	byrġelsum

Descendants

• Middle English: beriel, buriel, biriel, buriels, biriels, beriall, bereall, beryell
  • English: burial
  • Scots: buirial

Further reading

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