berg
Norwegian
noun-n1
Definitions
- mountain, hill
- rock
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse berg (mountain) inherited from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (mountain, hill, shelter, refuge).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*bergaz
Gloss
mountain, hill, shelter, refuge
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
山, 岳
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- barrow English
- barrow boy English
- barrowful English
- barrowlike English
- barrowload English
- barrowman English
- handbarrow English
- wheelbarrow English
- Bergwerk German
- *bʰerǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- art Norwegian Bokmål
- bergart Norwegian Bokmål
- berggrunn Norwegian Bokmål
- bergmann Norwegian Bokmål
- bergstad Norwegian Bokmål
- bergverk Norwegian Bokmål
- grunn Norwegian Bokmål
- mann Norwegian Bokmål
- stad Norwegian Bokmål
- verk Norwegian Bokmål
- *bergaz Proto-Germanic
- berg Norwegian Nynorsk
- beorg Old English
- berwe Middle English
- berg Old Norse
- bergrisi Old Norse
- bjarg Old Norse
- berg Old High German
- berg Faroese
- 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹 Gothic
- *berg gmw-pro
- berg Old Dutch
- berg Old Saxon
- ibhala Zulu
- berch Old Frisian