-berg

-berg

See also: Berg, Berğ, Bërg, and berg

English

Etymology 1

    Borrowed from German -berg.

    Suffix

    -berg

    1. Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
    Usage notes

    Along with -stein and -witz, -berg is a stereotypically Ashkenazi suffix. For example:

    • 2007 May 24, Mark I. Pinsky, The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition‎[1], Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 227:
      In one 2007 episode of the determinedly anti-Christian show, a Jewish surgeon, Dr. Chosenberg, is accidentally injured when Moral Orel’s ceramic bobblehead Jesus hits him in the chest.

    Etymology 2

    Back-formation from iceberg.

    Suffix

    -berg

    1. (usually humorous) Forms nouns defining large agglomerations of a particular substance or quality.
      • 2013, Jonathan Meades, Pompey, →ISBN:
        He saw a spur-winged plover grubbing on a little mudberg and his eyes told him the mudberg moved when the bird screeched, flew, became a mote.
    Derived terms
    English terms suffixed with -berg
    fatberg

    German

    Etymology

      From Berg (“mountain”).

      Pronunciation

      • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

      Suffix

      -berg m

      1. Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.

      Descendants

      • → English: -berg
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