burial

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

   His whole family was present at his burial.

2. 2
   noun

   concealing something under the ground

3. 3
   noun

   the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

Etymology

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.