Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/berza

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This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérˀźas, *bérˀźāˀ from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós. The term refers specially to birch species with white bark, like Betula pubescens. Other kinds of birch were known as *olьxa (alder) (also encountered as *elьxa in some descendants) because of their brownish bark.

Noun

*bèrza f[1][2][3][4]

  1. birch

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*berza”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 201
  • Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 65ff
  • beržas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bèrza”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 38:f. ā (a) ‘birch’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “berza -y”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (SA 155, 177; PR 132; RPT 107, 111)
  3. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “brẹ́za”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:*be̋rza
  4. ^ Kapović, Mate (2007) “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, University of Vienna, page 5:*be̋rza