-berg
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-berg
- Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
Usage notes
[edit]Along with -stein and -witz, -berg is a stereotypically Ashkenazi suffix. For example:
- 2007 May 24, Mark I. Pinsky, The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition[1], Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 227:
- In one 2007 episode of the determinedly anti-Christian show, a Jewish surgeon, Dr. Chosenberg, is accidentally injured when Moral Orel’s ceramic bobblehead Jesus hits him in the chest.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Berg (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
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Suffix
[edit]-berg m
- Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.