Romansh language
In the Romansh language spoken in the Cantons of Grisons (Graubünden) and Ticino in Switzerland and in Lombardy (Italy), the word appears as "s'bèrna" and "bèrna", with the accent over the letter "e". Its dialectal meaning is "skinny and ugly" ("magro e brutto" in Italian), indicating that the name derives from a physical appellation of people, although that is only a hypothesis.