burial

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of placing a dead body in the ground, usually with a ceremony.

   The whole family attended his burial at the village cemetery.

From Middle English biriel, a backformation from biriels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from from Old English byrġels, from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury + -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix.

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