Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel). · To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock. · To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.3 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc. · To provide (someone) with a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor. · A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage. · A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin. · A job or position on a vessel.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English birth (“(nautical) bearing away or off, clearance, berth”). Further etymology uncertain, but probably from beren (“to carry (away), bear”) + -th (suffix denoting a condition, quality, state of being, etc., forming nouns); if so, the English word is analysable as bear + -th (suffix forming nouns from verbs), and is a piecewise doublet of birth. The verb is derived from the noun.
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