Bertha
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Medieval diminutive of Germanic compound names with the element berht (“bright, famous”).
Proper noun [edit]
Bertha
- A female given name.
- 1858 Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish:
- You are the beautiful Bertha, the spinner, the queen of Helvetia; / She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton
- 1921 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, Echo Library (2006), ISBN 1406821772, page 12:
- Why couldn't they have called her by her first name, Bertha, which was beautiful and dignified, instead of that silly "Rilla"?
- 1983 Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg, McCleland-Bantam, ISBN 0770421342, page 135:
- "No wonder she never gets anywhere with a name like Bertha," Sally said, while having coffee afterwards with two of the other night-coursers. "It goes with her outfits, though." ( Bertha sports the macrame look, with health-food sandals and hand-weave skirts that don't do a thing for her square figure, [...])
- 1858 Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish:
Translations [edit]
female given name
Anagrams [edit]
Danish [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Bertha
- A female given name, cognate to English Bertha.
German [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Bertha
- A female given name, cognate to Bertha.
