English
Hemingbrough
Hemingbrough may come from Old English burg ‘fortified place, fortification: fortress, castle’.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150burgas burh‘fortified place, fortification: fortress, castle’uncertain
- EnglishtodayHemingbrough
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150burgas burh‘fortified place, fortification: fortress, castle’uncertain
- EnglishtodayHemingbrough
The story
May be from a term relating to Heming + Old English burh (borough).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- ‘to be elevated, up high’
force, comfortable, fort, berry, barrow, brie, forcible, brahmin, brahmana, bergh, bourguignon, burgher, 20 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰs ‘something high up and fortified’
through Proto-Germanic *burgz ‘fortification, stronghold’
burgess, burglar, bourgeois, borough, burg, borgo, broch, 5 more
Today it means
name A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE6730).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English burg / Hemingbrough