bergとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Clipping of iceberg.

名詞

berg (plural bergs)

1. An iceberg.
   • 1997, David J. Rugh with Kim E.W. Shelden, “Spotted Seals, Phoca Largha, in Alaska”, in Marine Fisheries Review, volume 59, number 1, page 1:

     The ice was thin, and only a few areas had bergs large enough to support marine mammals.

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.

名詞

berg (plural bergs)

1. (chiefly South Africa) A mountain.
   • 2004, Alan Goldfein, “A Wonderful Drive”, in Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe"‎, American Editions, →ISBN, page 46:

     There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ...

派生語

関連する語

• iceberg
• bergshrund

アナグラム

• Greb, gerb

語源

From 古期英語 ġebeorg (unprefixed beorg is found in compounds; compare scūrbeorg (“roof, shelter from the storm”)), from beorgan (“to shelter, protect”).

名詞

berg

1. protection, shelter
2. guardian, watchman

参照

• “berg, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

接尾辞

-berg

1. Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.

使用する際の注意点

Along with -stein and -witz, -berg is a stereotypically Ashkenazi suffix. For example:

• 2007 May 24, Mark I. Pinsky, The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition‎, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 227:

  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.

語源 2

Back-formation from iceberg.

接尾辞

-berg

1. (usually humorous) Forms nouns defining large agglomerations of a particular substance or quality.
   • 2013, Jonathan Meades, Pompey, →ISBN:

     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.

派生語