Definitions
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- noun obsolete
Protection ;shelter . - noun A
hill . - verb transitive, obsolete To give
shelter ;protect ;preserve ;deliver ;save .
Etymologies
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From Middle English berg, berȝ, berȝe, from Old English beorg (in compounds) (compare scūrbeorg ("roof, shelter from the storm")), from Old English beorgan ("to shelter, protect"). See above.
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From Middle English bergh, from Old English beorg ("mountain, hill, mound, barrow, burial place"), from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“hill, mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“height”). More at barrow.
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From Middle English berghen, berwen, berȝhen, berȝen, from Old English beorgan ("to save, deliver, preserve, guard, defend, fortify, spare, beware of, avoid, guard against"), from Proto-Germanic *berganan (“to shelter, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhergh- (“to protect, defend, save, preserve”). Cognate with Dutch bergan ("to store, save, rescue"), German bergen ("to salvage, recover, hise, rescue, save"), Icelandic bjarga ("to save"). Related to bury.
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Examples
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"Ultimately, it's not clear that policy decisions have the capacity to change the future course of civilization." mr. garrett like many many other professors& scientists world wide ... ray bergh | Nov. 23, 2009 at 7: 06 p.m.
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Getting van den bergh here for an overrated Oduro was pure genius but all of his big signings (Ferreira, Purdy, Torres, Sanchez) have been average at best.
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VIII. having married a second wife, daughter of Col - lison; but by his first wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Wy - bergh, of Clifton, com.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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