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Steenbergen

Steenbergen comes from Dutch steen ‘stone’, from berg ‘hill, elevated place’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- ‘to rise up, ascend’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰerǵʰ-‘to rise up, ascend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*bergaz‘hill, mountain’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*berg‘hill, mountain’reconstructed
  4. Old Dutchc. 500–1150berg‘mountain, hill’
  5. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500berch‘mountain, hill’
  6. Dutchc. 1500–presentberg‘hill, elevated place’
  7. Dutch, derivedc. 1500–presentsteen‘stone’dative plural form of berg
  8. Dutch, derivedc. 1500–presentSteenbergen
  9. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰerǵʰ-‘to rise up, ascend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*bergaz‘hill, mountain’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*berg‘hill, mountain’reconstructed
  4. Old Dutchc. 500–1150berg‘mountain, hill’
  5. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500berch‘mountain, hill’
  6. Dutchc. 1500–presentberg‘hill, elevated place’
  7. Dutch, derivedc. 1500–presentsteen‘stone’dative plural form of berg
  8. Dutch, derivedc. 1500–presentSteenbergen
  9. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- ‘to rise up, ascend’

force, comfortable, fort, borough, burgess, burglar, bourgeois, brie, forcible, brahmin, burgh, burg, brahmana, broch, borgo, bourguignon, 22 more

through Proto-West Germanic *berg ‘hill, mountain’

berry, barrow, bergh

Today it means

name A surname from Dutch.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- / Steenbergen

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