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Berg vs Beag - What's the difference?

berg | beag |

As a proper noun berg

is a place name, notably of:.

As a noun beag is

(historical) a ring.

berg

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Mountain, a large mass or hill.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2004 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alan Goldfein , title=Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe" , chapter=A Wonderful Drive 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 ... }}
  • An iceberg.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date= , year=1997 , month= , first=David J. , last=Rugh , author= , coauthors=Kim E.W. Shelden , title=Spotted Seals, Phoca Largha, in Alaska , volume=59 , issue=1 , page=1 , magazine=Marine Fisheries Review , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=The ice was thin, and only a few areas had bergs large enough to support marine mammals. }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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    beag

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A ring.
  • * 1878 , Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain), The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society :
  • 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.
  • * 1970 , William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England :
  • [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita'' as ''coronatus lauro'' probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal ''diadema .
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