Ha ha ha, this semantics stuff is right up my street.
(if you read this post through, you will see that it is very much
on topic, by the way
)
The word is spoken as 'burg', or a variant, by most of the Indo-European world.
For example, that picture you see me in my
kilt on the left here, was taken in
Edinburgh, which is named that way because the old city was built next to a huge '
burg' that sticks up there (old volcanic plug - see image at bottom) and upon which, the more ancient dwellers from the bronze age lived (who themselves, were all descendants, both in DNA and in language of Indo-European ancestors.) The same word is in many Norse, and Germanic languages and even cognate in Indian
Sanskrit. It is an ancient Indo-European word, that was applied to giant mounds, and later, mountains of ice floating around, and is mis-pronounced these days as 'berg'.
In
Scotland, it was called a '
burg', even within this era, by some older folks.
And then, to show that this is all
on topic see the last pic. of an ice
berg off Greenland, and compare it to "Arthurs Seat', the
Burg, in Edin
burgh.
You boys just got schooled.
See images below.
(also, 'forts' called 'burgs', after '
hill fort'.)
(also, interesting side-note, the Sanskrit cognate word, is the root of 'Brahma', the Hindu God...but Brahma really just means 'totality', or 'elevated (high power)', a bit like our word 'universe', and the way people still (until very recently) use the archaic phrase, 'the Heavens', to mean the whole sky above.)
