Bertha

See also bertha

English

Etymology

Medieval diminutive of Germanic compound names with the element berht (“bright, famous”).

Proper noun

Bertha

1. 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, [...])

Translations

female given name

Czech: Berta (cs) Danish: Bertha (da) Finnish: Bertta (fi) French: Berthe (fr)

German: Bertha (de) Latvian: Berta (lv) f. Spanish: Berta (es) Swedish: Berta (sv)

Anagrams

• bather
• breath

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Danish

Proper noun

Bertha

1. A female given name, cognate to English Bertha.

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German

Alternative forms

• Berta

Proper noun

Bertha

1. A female given name, cognate to Bertha.