Plural form referring to multiple instances of burial or the places where bodies are interred.
From Middle English 'burial' (from Old English 'byrgan' meaning 'to bury') plus the plural suffix '-s'. The form 'buriel' is an archaic or variant spelling of burial.
The word 'burial' itself comes from the same root as 'bury,' but the '-al' suffix transforms a verb into a noun describing the act itself—English does this transformation so automatically we rarely notice it.
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