bȇrgъ

bȇrgъ Grammatical information: m. o Accent paradigm: с Proto-Slavic meaning: `bank'

Page in Trubačev: I 191-193

Old Church Slavic:

brěgъ `bank, shore, steep slope' [m o]

Russian:

béreg `bank, shore' [m o]

Czech:

břeh `bank, shore, boundary, edge' [m o];

břech (dial.) `hill' [m o], břeha [Gens]

Old Czech:

břěh `hill, hillside, bank, shore, pier' [m o]

Slovak:

breh `bank, shore, hill, hillside' [m o]

Polish:

brzeg `bank, shore, edge' [m o]

Upper Sorbian:

brjóh `bank, shore, hill' [m o], brjoha [Gens]

Lower Sorbian:

brjog `bank, shore, hill, heap' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

brȉjeg `bank, shore, boundary, edge, hill' [m o];

Čak. brȋg (Vrgada) `bank, shore, boundary, edge, hill' [m o], brȋga [Gens];

Čak. brⁱȇg (Orbanići) `hill' [m o], brⁱȇge [Locs]

Slovene:

brẹ̑g `bank, shore, hillside, hill' [m o]

Bulgarian:

brjag `bank, shore' [m o]

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰerǵʰ-o-

IE meaning: hill

Page in Pokorny: 140

Comments: In view of the Indo-Iranian and Armenian forms, the *g of the Slavic etymon is problematic. Attempts to establish *bergъ as a borrowing from Germanic or Venetic-Illyrian (Pokorny) seem unconvincing.

Other cognates:

Go. bairgahei `mountainous region' [f];

OIc. bjarg `mountain'

;

OHG berg `mountain'

;

Skt. br̯hánt- (RV+) `great, large, high';

LAv. bǝrǝz- `great, high' [adj];

Arm. barjr `high' [adj]