Bern
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Bern¹
- /bɜː(ɹ)n/ UK
- /bɝn/ US
- /bɛ(ɹ)n/
Sounds like burn, bairn · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n, -ɛə(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
From Alemannic German Bärn, of uncertain further origin.
A popular folk etymology says it was named by its founder, Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen, after the first animal he saw in the area, a Bär(in) (“bear”) (compare Berlin, subject to a similar folk etymology).
The name is now thought to be connected to a Celtic word, Proto-Celtic *berna (“cleft”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to carve out, cut”)) and *branos (“raven”) (compare the name ΒΡΕΝΟΔΩΡ (BRENODŌR), on the Bern zinc tablet, which has also been connected with the Gaulish name Brennus). More at Bern.
proper noun Berns · Berne
- A federal city of Switzerland; the capital city of Bern canton. Although the researchers found that, on average, narcissism gradually declined as people aged, “the results show that this decline is not as large as one might hope,” said Ulrich Orth, the lead author of the paper and a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
- A canton of Switzerland.
- A surname
Bern²
- /bɜː(ɹ)n/ UK
- /bɝn/ US
- /bɛ(ɹ)n/
Sounds like burn, bairn · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n, -ɛə(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
Abbreviations
* Clipping of Bernard.
* Clipping of Bernadette.
* Clipping of Bernice.
proper noun Berns
- A diminutive of the male given name Bernard, variant of Bernie.
- A diminutive of the female given names Bernadette and Bernice, variant of Bernie.
