berg

[A.S. berg, beorg, beorh, gebeorh = (1) a hill, a mountain, (2) a rampart, a fortification, (3) a heap or barrow; Sw., Dut., & Ger. berg; Dan. bierg = a mountain, a hill.] + I. As the half of a compound word: 1. A mountain, a hill; as ice- berg , a mountain or hill of ice. 2. (Altered to Berk ): A barrow, a heap of stones, a burial mound; as Berkhampstead (A.S. Beor -hamstede). (Bosworth.) II. As an independent word, most frequently of ice : 1. A mountain, a hill, a high ma . "... glittering bergs of ice." Tennyson: The Prince IMG:content-1246.png:[blocks in formation] "After this spac god to abram: Thin berg an tin werger ic ham." Story of Gen. & Exod . (ed. Morris, 1865), 925-26.