Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/berg

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *bergaz.

*berg m^[1]

1. hill, mountain

• Old English: beorg, beorh, berg
  • Middle English: bergh, berȝ, beruȝ, beruh, berw
    • English: barrow; bargh (Northern England)
    • Scots: burrae
  • Middle English: berȝe, beryhe, berye (via beorge (genitive))
    • English: berry
• Old Frisian: berch
  • North Frisian: beerg
  • Saterland Frisian: Bíerig
  • West Frisian: berch
• Old Saxon: berg, berag
  • Middle Low German: berch
    • German Low German: Barg
    • Plautdietsch: Boajch
• Old Dutch: berg
  • Middle Dutch: berch
    • Dutch: berg
      • Afrikaans: berg
        • → English: berg
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: berki
      • Jersey Dutch: bêrix
      • Negerhollands: berg, bergi
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: berg, bergi
      • → Aukan: beligi
      • → Sranan Tongo: bergi
        • → Caribbean Javanese: bérgi
    • Limburgish: berg
• Old High German: berg
  • Middle High German: bërc
    • Alemannic German: Bäärg, Bärg, Bèèrg, Bërg
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: pèrge

      Mòcheno: pèrg

    • Central Franconian: Berch

      Eifel: Bersch

      Hunsrik: Berrich

    • East Central German: Barg (Erzgebirgisch)
    • German: Berg
    • Luxembourgish: Bierg
    • Pennsylvania German: Barig
    • Yiddish: באַרג (barg)