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Berg

//bɜːɡ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A place name, notably of:; A former duchy and later grand duchy in North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany).
  2. 2
    A place name, notably of:; A municipality of Troms, Norway.
  3. 3
    A place name, notably of:; A municipality in Jämtland County, Sweden.
  4. 4
    A surname from German common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.
Noun
  1. 1
    An iceberg.

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

  2. 2
    A mountain. South-Africa

    "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 ..."

  3. 3
    a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of iceberg.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.

Etymology 3

From German Berg or Swedish berg, either term meaning hill or mountain.

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