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Old Novgorodian
Etymology
First attested in c. 1140‒1160. Shortened from *бьрковьске пѫде (*bĭrkovĭske pǫde, “pood from the city of Birka”). By surface analysis, *Бьркꙑ (*Bĭrky) + -ове (-ove) + -ьске (-ĭske) or + -овьске (-ovĭske), borrowed from Old Norse Birka (“a port city in medieval Sweden”), ultimately from birki- (“birchen”), bjǫrk (“birch”). Compare Estonian perkapund, dialectal põrgepund (“ship-pound”) < Old Swedish *biærköa pund, while Old Norse *birkiskr pund could serve as a model for Old Novgorodian *бьрковьске пѫде (*bĭrkovĭske pǫde) and Old East Slavic *бьрковьскъ пѫдъ (*bĭrkovĭskŭ pǫdŭ).
Cognate with Old East Slavic бьрковьскъ (bĭrkovĭskŭ), Old Ruthenian берковескъ (berkovesk).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: бь‧рко‧вь‧ске
Noun
бьрковьске • (bĭrkovĭske) m
- berkovets (an old unit of weight, approximately 164 kilograms or 10 poods)
References
- ^ Anikin, A. E. (2009) “бéрковец”, in Русский этимологический словарь (in Russian), issue 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 132
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