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    Posted: 03-Mar-2006 at 12:21

The most common form of place name in Thailand is a 'buri': Lopburi, Kanchanaburi, Singburi...... ect.

In English there's Canterbury, Cadbury, Avbury and so on.

In both languages 'bury' and 'buri' means roughly place.

 

In Sangskrit the word 'buri' exists and has identical meaning. This suggests both languages have retained the same word from Sangskrit unchanged.

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In Persian we have the suffix of "-bar" which means "Shore/Coast", there are many cities with this suffix such as Rudbar, Juybar and Zangibar (Zanzibar).
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Well in England theres Potters Bar.
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Uri is city in whatever they spoke in Neolithic/Chalcolithic times. Uri is still city in Basque, though the most common version is iri/hiri. Other variants are ili, uli and even iru.

In ancient Iberia you find dozens of cities that have that pattern with iri, uri, ili or uli as termination or prefix. Some are even easily readable in modern Basque, like Iliberri (both Granada and Elne): new town or new city.

Btw, how many -berrys do you have in Bitain?

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I think Latin urbs also comes from the same root ur-, and the word is present in Iriko (Jerico), Irusalem (Jerusalem), Ur, Uruk, Ilion (Troy), etc.

In Basque the word is present in several Iriberri (new town), in Iruinea (the capital, Pamplona) and Irun (another city).

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I've heard theories like this before.  Iv'e heard similar claims that the names of a lot of cities in Korean end in Beol and Bul.
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Well do they?
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