Barrow
Old English bearwe ‘stretcher, bier’, of Germanic origin; related to bear1.
wiktionary
From Middle English berwe, bergh, from Old English beorg(“mountain, hill, mound, barrow, burial place”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz(“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-(“high; height”). Cognate with Scots burrow(“mound, tumulus, barrow”), Saterland Frisian Bäirch, Bierich(“mountain”), West Frisian berch(“mountain”), Dutch berg(“mountain”), Low German Barg(“mountain”), German Berg(“mountain”), Danish bjerg(“mountain”), Swedish berg(“mountain”), Norwegian Bokmål berg(“rock, mountain, hillock, rock bottom”), Icelandic berg(“mountain”), bjarg(“rock”), Northern Luri برگ (berg, “mountain,hill”), Polish brzeg(“bank, shore”), Russian бе́рег(béreg, “bank, shore, land”).
From Middle English barowe, barwe, barewe, from Old English bearwe(“basket, handbarrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *barwā, *barwijā, from Proto-Germanic *barwǭ, *barwijǭ(“stretcher, bier”) (compare Low German Berwe, Old Norse barar (plural), Middle High German radebere(“wheelbarrow”)), from *beraną(“to bear”). More at bear.
From Middle English barow, bareȝ, bareh, from Old English bearg, bearh(“boar”), from Proto-West Germanic *barug, *barah, from Proto-Germanic *barugaz, *barahaz. Cognate with Old Frisian barch, Old Saxon barug, Old High German barug (German Borg), Old Norse bǫrgr.
From Old English beorgan(“to protect”)
etymonline
barrow (n.1)
"flat, rectangular frame with projecting handles for carrying a load," c. 1300, barewe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *bearwe "basket, barrow," from beran "to bear, to carry," from PIE root *bher- (1) "to carry." The original (hand-barrow) had no wheel and required two persons to carry it.
barrow (n.2)
"mound, hill, grave-mound," Old English beorg (West Saxon), berg (Anglian) "barrow, mountain, hill, mound," from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (source also of Middle Dutch berch, Old Saxon, Old High German berg "mountain," Old Frisian berch, birg "mountain, mountainous area," Old Norse bjarg "rock, mountain"), from PIE root *bhergh- (2) "high," with derivatives referring to hills and hill-forts.
Obsolete by c. 1400 except in place-names and southwest England dialect; revived by modern archaeology. Meaning "mound erected over a grave" was 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.
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]
