Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To provide something with a berm
A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope. · A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath. · One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine. · A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).
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