Saresbury

• Salesbiri, Salesbury, Sallesbury, Salisbiri, Salisburi, Salysbury, Sarrisbiri
• Seresberi, Sereberi (Early Middle English)

From Old English Searesbyriġ, dative and genitive of *Searesburh, alternative form of Searoburh (which some early forms originate directly from), from searu (“armour”) +‎ burg (“fort”) as a folk-etymological reinterpretation of Latin Sorviodūnum, Sorbiodōnum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsar(ə)sˌburiː/, /ˈsal(ə)sˌburiː/, /-ˌbɛriː/, /-ˌbiriː/

Saresbury

1. Old Sarum (a former city in Wiltshire, England)
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

     Þa þe kıng S to engla co þa macod he hıſ gaderıng æt Oxenefoꝛd. ⁊ þar he na þe b[ıſcop] Roger of Serebı ⁊ Alex b[ıſcop] of lıncol ⁊ te canceler Rog hıſe neueſ. ⁊ dıde ælle ın p[ꝛı]ſun. tıl hı ıafen up here caſtleſ.

     When King Stephen came to England, he held his assembly at Oxford; there he arrested Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, and Alexander, the Bishop of Lincoln andRoger the Chancellor, his nephews, and put them all in prison until they gave up their castles.

2. Salisbury (a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England)

• English: Salisbury
• → Latin: Sarisberia; Sarum (from the abbreviation Sar')
• → Old French: Salesbire