- (Middle
German "Berhte mit dem fuoze",
French "Berthe au
grand pied",
Latin "
Berhta ****
magno pede",
Italian "
Berta dai gran piè",
title of a
medieval epic...
- the
meaning of
Baltic baltas,
further adducing Slavic Belobog and
German Berhta. One of the two
Merseburg Incantations names Balder (in the
genitive singular...
-
derived from the Proto-Germanic
elements *Hrōþi- ("fame, glory, honour") and *
berhta- ("bright, shining").
Despite being used as a surname, it is most commonly...
- an
ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþi- "fame" and *
berhta- "bright" (Hrōþiberhtaz).
Compare Old
Dutch Robrecht and Old High German...
-
Bertha is a
female Germanic name, from Old High
German berhta meaning "bright one". It was
usually a
short form of
Anglo Saxon names Beorhtgifu meaning...
- for example.
Jacob Grimm noted in
particular they
might come from Holda, "
Berhta,
white by her very name" and Ostara.
According to Grimm's
Teutonic Mythology...
- Fru Gode in
Northern Germany; or
Perchta (the
bright one; also Berchta,
Berhta or Berta) in
Southern Germany. The
leader also is
sometimes an
undead noble...
-
through French. It is
composed of the
roots filu, "much", and
beraht or
berhta, "illustrious", "brilliant", and
means "very bright" or "very illustrious"...
-
Robert Old
English Hreodbeorht, "shining in fame," from
hrothi [fame] +
berhta [bright]."...."Variations:...Roope (Finnish) Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003)...
- literature, the
inaugural year of the prize. In 1966 he
received the
Irving and
Berhta Neuman Literary Prize from New York University's
Institute of
Hebrew Studies...
