Berg vs Beag - What's the difference?
berg | beag |
Mountain, a large mass or hill.
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An iceberg.
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(historical) A ring.
* 1878 , Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain), The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society :
* 1970 , William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England :
As a proper noun berg
is a place name, notably of:.As a noun beag is
(historical) a ring.berg
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher=American Editions , isbn=9783000143571 , page=46 , passage=There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ... }}
References
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag " (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.
- [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita'' as ''coronatus lauro'' probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal ''diadema .