Beorgford

Old English

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Alternative forms

• Beorgeford, Beorhford

Etymology

beorg (“mountain, hill”) +‎ ford (“ford”)

Proper noun

Beorgford m

1. Burford (a town and civil parish of West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England)
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCLII Hēr Cūðrēd ġefeaht þȳ XII ġēare his rīċes æt Beorhforda wiþ Æþelbald.

     Year 752 In this year, the twelfth of his reign, Cuthred fought against Athelbald at Burford.

Declension

Strong u-stem/a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	Beorgford	—
accusative	Beorgford	—
genitive	Beorgforda, Beorgfordes	—
dative	Beorgforda, Beorgforde	—

Descendants

• English: Burford

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Beorg-ford”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.