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-berg
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Berg Berğ Bërg berg
English
Etymology 1
en :bor de:-berg
en de -berg.
Suffix
Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
Usage notes
Along with -stein and -witz, -berg is a stereotypically Ashkenazi suffix. For example:
en Mark I. Pinsky The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=hJ91BwAAQBAJ Louisville Westminster John Knox Press 24-05-2007 227 https://books.google.com/books?id=hJ91BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA227 978-0-664-23265-8 In one 2007 episode of the determinedly anti-Christian show, a Jewish surgeon, Dr. Chosenberg, is accidentally injured when Moral Orel’s ceramic bobblehead Jesus hits him in the chest.
Etymology 2
en iceberg.
Suffix
en usually humorous Forms nouns defining large agglomerations of a particular substance or quality.
en 2013 Pompey Jonathan Meades 9781783520213 He saw a spur-winged plover grubbing on a little mudberg and his eyes told him the mudberg moved when the bird screeched, flew, became a mote.
Derived terms
en
German
Etymology
de :from Berg
From de Berg mountain.
Pronunciation
de De--berg.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Suffix
de suffix noun-forming suffixes m
Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
Descendants
en -berg 1