берегъ

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Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bergъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic брѣгъ (brěgŭ) and Old Polish brzeg.

Doublet of брѣгъ (brěgŭ), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbɛrɛɡʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛrʲɛɡʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛrʲɛːɡ/
  • Hyphenation: бе‧ре‧гъ

Noun

берегъ (beregŭm

  1. bank (of a river)
  2. shore (of the sea)

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “берегъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 69