бересто

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Old Novgorodian

Etymology

First attested in c. 1140‒1160. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bersto, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *berˀźta, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ-t-óm, from *bʰerHǵós (“birch”). Cognate with Old East Slavic бересто (beresto).

Noun

бересто • (beresto) n

  1. birchbark (bark of the birch tree)
Old Novgorodian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerHǵ- (0 c, 2 e)

Descendants

  • Old Pskovian: беросто (berośto)

Further reading

  • Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎ (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 711
  • “бересто”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024
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