berg

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɝɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
• Homophones: burg, burgh (one pronunciation)

Clipping of iceberg.

berg (plural bergs)

1. An iceberg.
   • 1997, David J. Rugh with 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.

Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.

berg (plural bergs)

1. (chiefly South Africa) A mountain.
   • 2004, Alan Goldfein, “A Wonderful Drive”, in Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe"‎^[1], 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
• bergshrund

• 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, edited by Moltke Moe, 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

• 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. inflection of bergen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

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

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 4 May 2018.

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, berich, berech
  • 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

berg m

1. alternative form of bearg

• përc — Bavarian

From Proto-West Germanic *berg.

bërg m

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)

• 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-
• Old Swedish: biærgh, bærgh
  • Swedish: berg
• Old Danish: biargh, biærgh, bærgh
  • Scanian: bjærğ
  • Danish: bjerg
    • Norwegian Bokmål: bjerg
• Gutnish: berg, bjerg, bjerr
• → Scots: berg

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “berg”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• berag

From Proto-West Germanic *berg.

berg m

1. mountain, hill

• Middle Low German: berch, barg
  • Low German: Barg, Biärg, Berg
    • German Low German: Barg
  • Plautdietsch: Boajch

berg m or n (feminine singular bergă, masculine plural bergi, feminine/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/, [bærj] (Standard Swedish; not Småland and Scania)

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berg n

1. a mountain

   De besteg berget

   They climbed the mountain

2. (figuratively) a mountain (very large heap, pile, or amount more generally)

   ett berg av papper

   a mountain of paper

3. rock, bedrock

   Man har borrat genom berget i jakt på rikedom

   People have drilled through the rock in search of riches

   Eld i berget!

   Fire in the hole!

   (literally, “Fire in the rock!”)

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

• fjäll

• “berg”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “berg”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “berg”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)