Bertha

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈbɜːθə/    美 /ˈbɝθə/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    — You are the beautiful Bertha, the spinner, the queen of Helvetia; / She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton
  2. Alternative form of Perchta (“goddess in Alpine paganism”). alt-of,alternative

词源

Definitely from Old English Berþa as a result of metathesis of h, from earlier Old English Berhte (“bright one”), influence of Latin Bercta.
Alternatively, from Old High German berhta (“bright one”), which was an epithet of the goddess Frigg.
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