berg

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

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /bɛrx/

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• Hyphenation: berg
• Rhymes: -ɛrx
• Rhymes: -ɛrx

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

berg m (plural bergen, diminutive bergje n)

1. mountain, hill

• Afrikaans: berg
• → English: berg
• → Sranan Tongo: bergi

See the etymology of the main entry.

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

• IPA^(key): /pɛrk/
• Rhymes: -ɛrk

berg n (genitive singular bergs, nominative plural berg)

1. rock face

• völuberg

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

berg m

1. (geography) mountain

• berȝ, berȝe

From Old English beorg (“shelter”).

berg

1. protection, shelter
2. guardian, watchman

• English: bergh

• “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”)

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

1. a mountain or hill
2. rock

berg

1. imperative of berge

• “berg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /bɛrɡ/

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

1. a mountain or hill
2. rock

• bergart
• bergmann
• bergstad
• bergvegg

• “berg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *bergaz.

berg m

1. mountain, hill

• Middle Dutch: berch
  • Dutch: berg
  • Limburgish: berg

• “berg”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *bergaz.

berg m (plural berga)

1. mountain, hill

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

    Cimbrian: pèrge

  • Central Franconian: Berch

    Eifel: Bersch

    Hunsrik: Berrich

  • East Central German:

    Erzgebirgisch: Barg

  • German: Berg
  • Luxembourgish: Bierg
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Barig

  • Yiddish: באַרג‎ (barg)
• ⇒ Old High German: giberg
  • Middle High German: gebërc
    • Vilamovian: gybiyg

• bjarg

From Proto-Germanic *bergaz.

berg n

1. rock, boulder
2. cliff, precipice

• Icelandic: berg, bjarg
• Faroese: berg, bjarg, bjørg
• Norwegian: berg
• Old Swedish: biærgh, bærgh
  • Swedish: berg
• Elfdalian: bjärr
• Old Danish: biargh, biærgh, bærgh
  • Danish: bjerg
• Westrobothnian: berg, bärg, bäri
• Elfdalian: bjärr, bjärg-, bjärgs-, bjärrs-
• Gutnish: berg, bjerg, bjerr
• Scanian: bjærğ
• → 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-Germanic *bergaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.

berg m

1. mountain, hill

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

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

• IPA^(key): /bɛrj/

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berg n

1. a 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 över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From Old Norse bjarga (pres. berg), from Proto-Germanic *berganą.

• IPA^(key): /²bɛːre/, /²bɛːrɪ/, /²be̞rɡ/

berg (preterite berd)

1. to harvest hay
2. (reflexive) to have a livelihood, protect oneself

• bergen (“rich, wealthy”)
• bergenheit (“livelihood”)
• bergning (“livelihood”)
• raberd (“(crop) harvested in a short time”)