## Etymology
From Middle English borow, a variant of burgh, borough ('fortified place, shelter'), from Old English burh, from Proto-Germanic *burgz ('fort'). The animal-hole sense developed from the notion of a sheltering refuge.

## AI Etymology
Burrow comes from Middle English borow, a variant of burgh, borough ('fortified place, shelter'), from Old English burh, from Proto-Germanic *burgz ('fort'). The animal-hole sense developed from the notion of a sheltering refuge. The historical trail runs through burh in Old English and *burgz in Proto-Germanic. Used as a noun and verb, burrow now means "an animal's underground hole; to dig or nestle into something", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as burrower and burrowing and related forms such as borough. The word is therefore part of the inherited Germanic layer of English, even where later usage has narrowed, broadened, or specialized the sense.

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