Bertha

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Proper noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Proper noun 3 German 3.1 Alternative spellings 3.2 Proper noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Proper noun

Singular Bertha

Plural -

Bertha

1. A female given name.

[edit] Quotations

• 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

• 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, - - -

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• Alphagram: abehrt
• bather
• breath

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Proper noun

Bertha

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

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[edit] German

[edit] Alternative spellings

• Berta

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Bertha

1. A female given name, cognate to Bertha.