beorg

Old English

beorg m

mountain, hill
- c. 900 CE, Alfred the Great [attributed], edited and translated by Henry Sweet, M.A., King Alfred's Orosius (Early English Text Society original series 79), London: N. Trübman & Co., published 1883, page 206:
  Fuluius sē consul fōr mid firde on Crēce tō þǣm beorgum þe mon Olimphus hæt.
  The consul Fulvius went to Greece with an army, to the mountain known as Olympus.
mound, heap of stones, barrow
- 10th century, The Ruin:
  Hryre wong ġecrong, ġebrocen tō beorgum, þǣr iū beorn moniġ, glædmōd ond goldbeorht, gleoma ġefrætwed, wlonc ond wīngāl, wīġhyrstum sċān; seah on sinc, on sylfor, on searoġimmas, on ēad, on ǣht, on eorcanstān, on þās beorhtan burg brādan rīċes.
  The field fell into a ruin, broken to heaps, where was many a man once, glad-minded and bright with gold, the decked-out splendors, proud and wine-flown, shone with war-trappings; looked at a hoard, at silver, at armor-gems, at mirth, at strength, at a pearl, at the bright town of the broad kingdom.
high beach, elevated shore

Strong a-stem:

Middle English: bergh, berȝ, beruȝ, beruh, berw
- English: barrow; bergh (Northern England)
- Scots: burrae
Middle English: berȝe, beryhe, berye (via beorge (dative))
- English: berry

beorg f

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