berg

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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

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.

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"‎^[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

Declension of berg
n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	berg	bergið	berg	bergini
accusative	berg	bergið	berg	bergini
dative	bergi	berginum	bergum	bergunum
genitive	bergs	bergsins	berga	berganna

• 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

berg m

1. Alternative form of bearg

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)

• 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

• “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^[2], 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/, [bærj]

• Audio:

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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!

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

• fjäll

• berg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• berg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• berg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)