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Old Novgorodian
Etymology
Old Novgorodian бебръке (bebrŭke)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bèbrъkъ. By surface analysis, бебръ (bebrŭ) + -ке (-ke) or + -ъке (-ŭke). First attested in c. 1200‒1220. Cognate with Upper Sorbian běbrk (“beaverkin”).
Pronunciation
Noun
бебръке • (bebrŭke) m[1][2]
- (hapax) diminutive of бебръ (bebrŭ, “beaver; beaver pelt”): beaverkin, little beaver
c. 1200‒1220, Kovalev, Roman K., transl., Берестяная грамота № 7 [Birchbark letter no. 7], Novgorod:… шесть бьбороко …- … šestĭ bĭboroko …
- … 6 beavers (pelts) …
- бебръ m (bebrŭ, “beaver; beaver pelt”)
- бобръ m (bobrŭ, “beaver; beaver pelt”)
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 711
- ^ Gippius, A. A., Sichinava, D. V. (2021) “Поправки и замечания к чтению ранее опубликованных берестяных грамот (НГБ. Т. 13)]”, in Русский язык в научном освещении [Russian Language and Linguistic Theory] (in Russian), number 2, Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →DOI, →ISSN, page 181
Further reading
- “бебръке”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024