Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1770s
Iceberg
from Eisberg
- Meaning
- Ice mountain.
- Source word
- Eisberg
- Route into English
- Dutch *ijsberg* and German *Eisberg* fed into 17th-c. English nautical vocabulary.
- Arrived
- 1770s
English borrows.
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