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barrow (1) "
vehicle for carrying a load,"
c.1300,
barewe, probably from an unrecorded
O.E. *bearwe "
basket, barrow," from
beran "
to bear, to carry" (see
BEAR (
Cf. bear) (
v.)). The original had no wheel and required two persons to carry it.
{{12}}barrow (2) "mound," O.E. beorg (W.Saxon), berg (Anglian) "barrow, mountain, hill, mound," from P.Gmc. *bergaz (Cf. O.S., O.Fris., O.H.G. berg "mountain," O.N. bjarg "rock"), from PIE root *bheregh- "high, elevated" (Cf. O.C.S. bregu "mountain, height," O.Ir. brigh "mountain," Skt. b'rhant "high," O.Pers. bard- "be high"). Obsolete except in place-names and southwest England dialect by 1400; revived by modern archaeology.
In place-names used of small continuously curving hills, smaller than a dun, with the summit typically occupied by a single farmstead or by a village church with the village beside the hill, and also of burial mounds. [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]
Meaning "mound erected over a grave" was a specific sense in late Old English. Barrow-wight first recorded 1869 in Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris's translation of the Icelandic saga of Grettir the Strong.
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