Eiger

Borrowed from German Eiger.

Eiger

1. A mountain in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland.
   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:

     It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.

Eiger

1. A mountain in Greenland.

• regie, geire

While folk etymology connected it to Oger (“ogre”), the mountain's name actually derives from the formerly common spelling Heiger, from dialectal Middle High German Hej-Gêr, dr hej Ger (“high point, large spear”), composed of hej (“high”) (presumably a derivation from *hauh) and *gaiʀ (“javelin, spear”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯ɡɐ/

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Eiger m (proper noun, strong, genitive Eigers)

1. Eiger (a mountain in Switzerland)

• Eiger on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de