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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/berg
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bergaz.
Noun
*berg m[1]
- hill, mountain
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *berg | |
Genitive | *bergas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *berg | *bergō, *bergōs |
Accusative | *berg | *bergā |
Genitive | *bergas | *bergō |
Dative | *bergē | *bergum |
Instrumental | *bergu | *bergum |
Descendants
- Old English: beorg, berg
- Middle English: bergh, berȝ, beruȝ, beruh, berw
- English: barrow; bargh (Northern England)
- Scots: burrae
- Middle English: berȝe, beryhe, berye (via beorge (genitive))
- English: berry
- Middle English: bergh, berȝ, beruȝ, beruh, berw
- Old Frisian: berch
- North Frisian: beerg
- Saterland Frisian: Bíerig
- West Frisian: berch
- Old Saxon: berg, berag
- Middle Low German: berch
- German Low German: Barg
- Plautdietsch: Boajch
- Middle Low German: berch
- Old Dutch: berg
- 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
- Afrikaans: berg
- Limburgish: berg
- Dutch: berg
- Middle Dutch: berch
- Old High German: berg
- 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)
- ⇒ Old High German: giberg
- Middle High German: gebërc
- Vilamovian: gybiyg
- Middle High German: gebërc
- Middle High German: bërc
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 182: “PWGmc *berg”