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it ut o’ mooth (Uⁿ.). — b. wi’, to make the best of; to bear, I maun [‘must’] just b. wi’ it; to b. ill wi’, see above “b. ill”.

berbank, -benk, sb., see borbakk.

ber-claw [bɛr·klâ·, berklâ·], sb., see bar-claw.

ber-clawed [berklâd·], adj., see bar-clawed.

berd, sb., see bar, sb. 1.

berd, vb., see bard, vb.

berdek, sb., see birdek.

berdel [(bɛrdəl) bærdəl], sb., soft kind of rock, steatite, soap-stone, also in compd.: b.-sten. Conn. Prob. *berg-talg. O.N. talgugrjót, n., a stone which can easily be cut (telgjask) or shaped, esp. steatite; No. talgstein = steatite (see Fritzner under “talgugrjót”; not in Aasen or Ross; Aa. mentions “telgjestein”). Cf. kleber, klemel. See berg, sb.

bere-geng, sb., see geng, sb.

bere-lag, sb., see lag, sb.

berel [bærəl], sb., a basket; creel, tabu-word used by fishermen at sea. Yⁿ. O.N. berill, m., vat (to contain liquids). See bødi¹, sb.

berer [bērər], sb., 1) carrier; 2) cross-bar in the bottom of a bed; Sa.; 3) wooden hoop, small inner beam under the gunwale of a boat, beam on which the ends of the thwarts rest, — stringer; Conn. Deriv. of ber, vb.

berfljug, berflog, vb., see barflog.

berg [bærg], sb., mountain; rock; rocky tract, now little used or known except in place-names, mostly as the second part of a compd. in various forms, as: berg, berreg and berrek [bærəg, -ək], berri [bæri]. In some places (as: Ai. and Y^h.) berg is still occas. used of a (small) rocky hill and sometimes — as in Nm. (N.Roe) — in the foll. senses: a) rocky soil; rocky soil with a thin stratum of earth, “here is naet’in’ [‘nothing’] but a shauld [‘shallow’]

b.”, said of a very thin layer of earth which, on cultivation, quickly shows the rocky stratum underneath; b) metaph. and jokingly, as: (he has) a b. on de nose, (he has) a big protuberance on his nose. O.N. berg, n., mountain; rock; rocky soil.

ber(g)dus [bɛrdus·, bərdus·], sb., crash of something falling (e.g. of a fragment of rock), = bergfall; hit ga’e [‘it gave’] a great b.; noise, hubbub, tumult. Ai., De. Also perdus [pɛrdus·]. Prob.: *bergdus (the falling down of great fragments of rock, = *bergfall); No. dus, m., thrust; blow, and dusa, vb., to fall; tumble down. Influenced by the word “bardus” (Ger. bardaus)?

bergel(t), see berggiltek, etc.

bergfall [bɛrfäᶅ·], sb., crash of something falling, prop. of a fragment of rock; tremendous crash; hit ga’e [‘it gave’] a b. Ai. *bergfall; No. bergfall, n., the falling down of great fragments of rock (R.). Cf. bafall and ber(g)dus.

berggiltek, berggilti [bɛrꬶı‘l·tək, -ꬶı‘l·ti], berggolti, -golt, -goltek [bɛrgȯ‘ᶅ·ti, -gȯ‘ᶅt· and -ꬶȯ‘lt·, -gȯ‘ᶅ·tək] and berggølti [bɛrꬶø‘l·ti], sb., wrasse (labrus). No. berggylta, berggalt, f., wrasse. berggiltek, -gilti: Uⁿ., Du., etc.; berggolti(-goltek): N.I., m. (occas.), Fo., etc.; berggolt: Wests. (Ai., Sa.); berggølti: De^w., Nm^w. In Du. the forms bergelt [bærgə‘lt] and bergel [bærgəl], also are used. — The word is used of various, at any rate two, species of labrus, in some places denoting a more reddish, in others, a more bluish species. — In Yⁿ. berggoltek is used to designate a little clumsy person. — Other names for labrus are blogummi, suter (No. blaagume (Aa.) and sutar (R.), and “Norwa haddock”.

*bergset, -sed [bæ‘rsəd], *bergsodi [bɛrsō·di], sb., a rock on the