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Ber  bereit, bereite,  bireiti, ‘ready and willing, obliging; armed, ready’;   gerœ̂de, rœ̂de,  ready;  garaids, ‘appointed,’ does not correspond exactly. The word may belong to the root discussed under (  reita, ‘carriage’), with the  sense of ‘to equip with armour’; like, it would thus mean properly ‘ready for a journey’;   ríadaim, ‘I am going on a journey,’ ríad, ‘practicable (of a route), passable.’ On account of the similarity in meaning.  ,, ‘mountain,’ inherited from the vocabulary;  bërg,  bërc(g),. beorh(g), especially ‘barrow’ (called byrgels also), only in the  ‘to bury’ ( byrgan), from *burgian; the  form *bairga- is deduced from the  bairgahei, ‘mountain range.’ The rules for the permutation of consonants demand a pre- bhérgho-; with this is connected  bṛhant, ‘high’ (b from bh, because the aspiration at the beginning of the root was, on account of the following aspirate, necessarily lost); h is gh; Zend barezanh, ‘height,’ berezant, ‘high’;  brigh, ‘mountain’ (ri,  ṛ, might be compared with the ur of ),  berj, ‘height,’ barjr, ‘high,’  and  bre, ‘mountain, hill,’  bry, ‘high.’ Also the  proper names Brigiani and Brigantes, like the  Burgunden, Burgundiones ( ‘monticulae’), and the name of the town Brigantia (Bregenz). Hence to the root bhergh belong the primary meanings ‘high, rising ground’ ( brěgŭ, ‘bank (of a river),’ is borrowed from ); perhaps is derived from this root, if it does not come from. The attempt to connect with  fairguni and Hercynia, identical with the latter, must be abandoned. With, ‘up, on end,’  ze tal, ‘down.’  ,, ‘to hide, recover (from shipwreck)’, from bërgen, ‘to hide, secure,’  bërgan;   bairgan, gabairgan, ‘to keep, preserve,’  beorgan,  bergen, ‘to preserve, protect.’ There are other  words with a different though allied meaning;  byrgan,  to bury;  byrgels ( burgisli),  burials, burial. For a similar division of a primary meaning see under. The root berg, burg, pre- bhergh, bhṛgh, with the primary meaning ‘to lay somewhere for safe keeping,’ is found outside the  group only in  brêgą, ‘I take care (of), wait upon.’  ,, ‘intelligence, report,’ from beriht, ‘report, instruction, reconciliation.’ Akin to.   , ‘a kind of cloth, fustian,’ from barragân, barkân, from  barracânus ( bouracan,  baracane),  barracan;.   ,, ‘coach,’ first occurs in , from the  berline,  , properly ‘a Berlin carriage.’   ,, ‘amber’; bern is a form for brenn, therefore properly  (combustible stone)?. The - word is glêsum, preserved in glœ̂re, ‘amber, resin.’   ,, first occurs in , borrowed from the berserkr,  ‘bear-skin garment,’ then ‘a savage warrior who gets furious during the fight’; from  ber-, ‘bear,’ serkr, ‘garment.’  , ‘to burst, crack,’ from brësten,  brëstan, ‘to break, tear, burst,’ impersonal ‘to be wanting, lacking’; er for re is properly  and ;   bersten,  berstan,  to burst. farther the Aryan root bhrest (cognate with the root of ), in brissim, ‘I break’ (ss from st).  ', ', in proper names, from bërht,  bëraht, ‘shining’;   bairhts,  beorht,  bright.   ,, ‘Spanish camomile or pellitory,’ based by popular etymology on the proper name ( ‘shining raven,’ see ), and derived from bitron, for - pyrethron (πύρεθρον). <section end="Bertram" /> <section begin="berüchtigt" /> , ‘infamous, notorious,’ a  from a weak  used even by Luther —, ‘to defame,’ for. which was the common form in the 16th and 17th. , as well as and ; all these words are cognate with, and are derived, as is shown by the ch for f before t, from. <section end="berüchtigt" /> <section begin="Beryll" /> ,, ‘beryl,’ from berille, barile, brille, , formed from - berýllus; also brille, ‘spectacles’; see ,. The - term is derived from vêlûriga,  vaiḍûrya. <section end="Beryll" /> <section begin="Besanmast" /> ',, ‘mizzen-mast,’ ', , ‘mizzen-sail’, from bezaan, ‘mast nearest the stern of a ship,’ which is connected with  mizzen,  mizaine, <section end="Besanmast" />