berg

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɜːɡ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɝɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ

Clipping of iceberg.

berg (plural bergs)

1. An iceberg.
   • 1997, Rugh, David J.; Kim E.W. Shelden, “Spotted Seals, Phoca Largha, in Alaska”, in Marine Fisheries Review, volume 59, number 1, page 1:

     The ice was thin, and only a few areas had bergs large enough to support marine mammals.

• earthberg
• fatberg

Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow.

berg (plural bergs)

1. (chiefly South Africa) mountain
   • 2004, Alan Goldfein, “A Wonderful Drive”, in Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe"‎, American Editions, →ISBN, page 46:

     There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ...

• iceberg
• bergschrund
• hauberk

• Greb, gerb

From Dutch berg.

berg (plural berge, diminutive bergie)

1. mountain

• bergreeks

• → English: berg

From Dutch bergen.

berg (present berg, present participle bergende, past participle geberg)

1. To salvage, usually cargo from a ship.
2. To store; to stash; to put away.

• bêre

• bergloon
• bergplek

From Norwegian berg, from Old Norse berg. Also from German Berg.

berg n (singular definite berget, plural indefinite berge)

1. (chiefly Norway) alternative form of bjerg (“mountain, hill”)
   • 1907, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Moltke Moe, editor, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons fortællinger, page 185:

     han [så] manden […] kjøre gjennom bragende ildsluer ind i det åbne berget, der stod over ham som en port.

     he [saw] the man […] drive through crackling fires into the open mountain, which stood over him like a gate.

• Norwegian Bokmål: berg

• IPA^(key): /bɛrx/

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• Hyphenation: berg
• Rhymes: -ɛrx

From Middle Dutch berch, from Old Dutch berg, from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.

berg m (plural bergen, diminutive bergje n)

1. mountain, hill
2. (figurative) a large amount, a pile; a stock, reserve; a surplus

(actually mountain-related):

(toponyms):

(figurative):

• Afrikaans: berg
  • → English: berg
• Berbice Creole Dutch: berki
• Jersey Dutch: bêrix
• Negerhollands: berg, bergi
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: berg, bergi
• → Aukan: beligi
• → Sranan Tongo: bergi
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bérgi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

berg

1. first-person singular present indicative of bergen
2. imperative of bergen

From Old Norse berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.

berg n (genitive singular bergs, plural berg)

1. cliff, cliff face

• fjall
• tindur
• brekka
• brattur

From Old Norse berg.

• IPA^(key): /pɛrk/
• Rhymes: -ɛrk

berg n (genitive singular bergs, nominative plural berg)

1. rock, boulder
2. cliff, precipice
3. mountain
4. rock face

• af erlendu bergi brotinn
• bergá
• bergásýnd
• bergbuna
• bergblóm
• bergbuna
• bergbursti
• bergbúi
• bergbrún
• bergbringur
• bergdanir
• bergtegund
• bergtekinn
• bergtjara
• bergtindur
• bergtollur
• bergtröll
• standberg
• völuberg

From Middle Dutch berch.

• Berg, bérg, bärg (alternative spellings)
• Bärrech (Eupen)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæ˨.ʀəç/, [ˈbæː˨.ʀəç]
• Hyphenation: berg
• Rhymes: -æʀəç

berg m

1. (geography) mountain, hill (refers to any elevated terrain)
2. (figuratively) pile, heap
3. (in the plural) mountain range

From earlier barg (with an umlaut on the root vowel). From Proto-West Germanic *barug, from Proto-Germanic *barugaz.

• Berg, bérg, bärg (alternative spellings)
• bèrg (Voeren, and other dialects)
• barg (Roermond)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæ˧.ʀəç/, [ˈbæː˧.ʀəç]
• Hyphenation: berg
• Rhymes: -æʀəç

berg m

1. (some dialects, including Maastrichtian, Sittard, Valkenburg) a castrated pig, swine

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæ˦.ʀəç/, [ˈbæː˦.ʀəç]
• Hyphenation: berg
• Rhymes: -æʀəç

berg

1. nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of berg
2. (archaic) accusative singular of berg

• berȝ, berȝe

From Old English ġebeorg (unprefixed beorg is found in compounds; compare scūrbeorg (“roof, shelter from the storm”)), from beorgan (“to shelter, protect”).

berg

1. protection, shelter
2. guardian, watchman

• “berg, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

From Old Norse berg, bjarg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz. Related to berge (“rescue, bring to shore/land”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛɾɡ/, [bæɾɡ]

berg n (definite singular berget, indefinite plural berg, definite plural berga or bergene)

1. mountain, hill
2. rock

berg

1. imperative of berge

• “berg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /bɛrɡ/, [bærɡ], [bæɾˠɡ], [bæɾɡ]
• (South Eastern Norway) IPA^(key): /bɛrj/, [bæɾj]

From Old Norse berg, bjarg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz.

berg n (definite singular berget, indefinite plural berg, definite plural berga)

1. mountain, hill
2. rock

Doublet of bjørg, from Old Norse bjǫrg.

berg f (definite singular berga, indefinite plural berger, definite plural bergene)

1. help, saving, salvation

Male given names:

Female given names:

• “berg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *berg.

berg m

1. mountain, hill

• Middle Dutch: berch
  • Dutch: berg
    • Afrikaans: berg
      • → English: berg
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: berki
    • Jersey Dutch: bêrix
    • Negerhollands: berg, bergi
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: berg, bergi
    • → Aukan: beligi
    • → Sranan Tongo: bergi
      • → Caribbean Javanese: bérgi
  • Limburgish: berg

• “berg”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *berg.

berg m (plural berga)

1. mountain, hill

• Middle High German: bërc
  • Alemannic German: Bäärg, Bärg, Bèèrg, Bërg
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: pèrge

    Mòcheno: pèrg

  • Central Franconian: Berch

    Eifel: Bersch

    Hunsrik: Berrich

  • East Central German: Barg (Erzgebirgisch)
  • German: Berg
  • Luxembourgish: Bierg
  • Pennsylvania German: Barig
  • Yiddish: באַרג‎ (barg)
• ⇒ Old High German: giberg
  • Middle High German: gebërc
    • Vilamovian: gybiyg

• bjarg

From Proto-Germanic *bergą, *bergaz.

berg n

1. rock, boulder
2. cliff, precipice

• Icelandic: berg, bjarg
• Faroese: berg, bjarg, bjørg
• Norwegian: berg
  • → Danish: berg (also from German)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: berg
• Elfdalian: bjärr, bjärg-, bjärgs-, bjärrs-
• Westrobothnian: berg, bärg, bäri
• Old Swedish: biærgh, bærgh
  • Swedish: berg
• Old Danish: biargh, biærgh, bærgh
  • Scanian: bjærğ
  • Danish: bjerg
    • Norwegian Bokmål: bjerg
• Gutnish: berg, bjerg, bjerr
• → Scots: berg

• “berg”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• berag

From Proto-West Germanic *berg.

berg m

1. mountain, hill

• Middle Low German: berch
  • German Low German: Barg
  • Plautdietsch: Boajch

berg m or n (feminine singular bergă, masculine plural bergi, feminine and neuter plural berge)

1. Obsolete form of berc.

• berg in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Old Norse bjarg, berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /bɛrj/

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berg n

1. mountain
2. bedrock, mine

   man har borrat genom berget, för att finna rikedom

   they have drilled through the bedrock, hoping to find wealth

   eld i berget!

   warning cry that an explosive charge has been ignited in a mine

3. a mountain, a very large heap

   Ett berg med papper

   A mountain of paper

• berg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

berg n

1. Alternative spelling of bärg