-berg

See also: Berg, Berğ, Bërg, and berg

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German -berg.

Suffix

-berg

1. 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:

• 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.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from iceberg.

Suffix

-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.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -berg

fatberg

German

Etymology

From Berg (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Suffix

-berg m

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

Descendants

• → English: -berg