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Old English · noun

beorg

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/be͜orɡ/
[be͜orˠɣ]
Syllables
be͜orɡ (1 syllable)
Modern English
mountainshelterberghrefugeelevatedbarrowheaphill

beorg1 · noun · masculine

Senses

  1. mountain, hill

    Fuluius sē consul fōr mid firde on Crēce tō þǣm beorgum þe mon Olimphus hæt.

    The consul Fulvius went to Greece with an army, to the mountain known as Olympus.

    late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

  2. mound, heap of stones, barrow

  3. high beach, elevated shore

Declension · strong a-stem

Declension of beorg
SingularPlural
Nominative beorgbeorgas
Accusative beorgbeorgas
Genitive beorgesbeorga
Dative beorgebeorgum

beorg2 · noun · feminine

Senses

  1. shelter, protection, refuge

Declension · strong ō-stem

Declension of beorg
SingularPlural
Nominative beorgbeorgabeorge
Accusative beorgebeorgabeorge
Genitive beorgebeorga
Dative beorgebeorgum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain”). Cognate with Old Frisian berch, Old Saxon berg, Old High German bërg (German Berg), Old Norse bjarg, Gothic - (bairg-); and with Old Irish brí (“mountain”), Old Church Slavonic брѣгъ (brěgŭ) (Russian бе́рег (béreg)), Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhát, “high”).

From Proto-West Germanic *bergu from Proto-Germanic *bergō. Equivalent to *bergan + *-u.

Descendants

barrow, bergh, berry

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