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English word iceberg comes from Dutch ijs (Ice. Ice cream.), Dutch berg (Mountain, hill.)
ijs (Dutch)
Ice. Ice cream.
berg (Dutch)
Mountain, hill.
ijsberg (Dutch)
Iceberg (mountain-size mass of floating ice).
iceberg (English)
(US, slang) An aloof person.. (figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.. A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf.