The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

The use of the word borough probably derives from the burghal system of Alfred the Great.

In many parts of England, " borough " is pronounced as an independent word, and as when a suffix of a place-name.

In Mexico as translations from English to Spanish applied to Mexico City, the word borough has resulted in a delegación ( delegation ), referring to the 16 administrative areas within the Mexican Federal District.

Frei means " free ", and Burg, like the modern English word " borough ", was used in those days for an incorporated city or town, usually one with some degree of autonomy.

The borough was named in 1889 for Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company ( glen is the Scottish word for valley ), which mined in that area.

The word " Burgess " means an elected or appointed official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.

Évry had just been chosen to become a " new town " of the suburbs of Paris, destined to host tens of thousands of suburbanites, and so the name " Petit-Bourg " ( literally meaning " little borough, small town " in modern French, although etymologists think that this name was in fact the corruption of an old Gallic word with a totally different meaning ) was deemed too old fashioned and improper for the new large suburban city of Évry to be built.

The name Bury, ( also earlier known as " Buri " and " Byri ") comes from an Old English word, meaning " castle ", " stronghold " or " fort ", an early form of modern English borough.

Fresh Kills ( from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning " riverbed " or " water channel ") is a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the New York City borough of Staten Island.

) Pronunciation is the same as the English word borough, which is a near cognate of the Scots word.

The English language borough, like the Scots Burgh, is derived from the same Old English language word burh ( whose dative singular and nominative / accusative plural form byrig sometimes underlies modern place-names, and which had dialectal variants including " burg "; it was also sometimes confused with beorh, beorg, ' mound, hill ', on which see Hall 2001, 69-70 ).

Where a parish council ( whether the successor of a former borough or not ) has resolved to style itself a Town Council, then its chairman is entitled to the designation Town Mayor, though in practice, the word Town is often dropped.

The area covered by the former village has been reclassified as a borough ( 町 "- machi " is often translated " town ," but the word " borough ," like 町 "- machi ," can mean either a division of a city or a town independent of any larger city: see the article on " Borough " for comparable usages ) within the City of Tamura.

The name Osma derives from the Celto-Roman Uxama, while Burgo is cognate to the English word borough.

Borgo is an Italian word ( plural borghi ), cognate with English borough, German Burg, French bourg, that now usually means the new town outside the walls of an old town ( the paese ).

The one-way northeast / southwest cross-streets are numbered, with the word " Bay " attached ( to distinguish them, for postal reasons, from other numbering systems elsewhere in the borough ), from Bay 7th Street in the northwest through Bay 50th Street in the southeast.

Pentre-Gwaelod translates as Bottom Village, but Madocks had grander plans, for aldermen and a mayor had been appointed, and he corrected the word " village " in a letter written soon afterwards to read " borough ".

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

The word " acoustic " is derived from the Greek word ακουστικός ( akoustikos ), meaning " of or for hearing, ready to hear " and that from ἀκουστός ( akoustos ), " heard, audible ", which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω ( akouo ), " I hear ".

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).

The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.

The word " furlong " itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.

It derives from the Greek root ἄλλος, and alius ( Latin ) meaning " other "; then the word αλληλους, allelos, meaning " each other ".

From Thespis ' name derives the word thespian.

The word analgesic derives from Greek αν-(" without ") and άλγος-(" pain ").

The name derives from a Brythonic word Gobannia meaning " river of the blacksmiths ", and relates to the town's pre-Roman importance in iron smelting.

The feast was also known as Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin from which the word Céitean derives.

Bald Eagles are not actually bald, the name derives from the older meaning of the word, " white headed ".

The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost ( breast, bosom ) from Proto-Germanic breustam ( breast ), from the Proto-Indo-European base bhreus – ( to swell, to sprout ).

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

This word derives from the Greek Βάρβαρος-ου, which means stuttering.

Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, from cepa, the Latin word for onion.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

The rider from Concord was as good as his word.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.

Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.

The word hissed distinctly from Poet's lips as he struggled to his feet.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.