betulla
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.
Compare Portuguese bétula, Spanish abedul, Catalan bedoll, French bouleau.
Noun
betulla f (plural betulle)
Further reading
- betulla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Alternative forms
- betūla? (Medieval Latin)
- betula (medieval?, early New Latin)
Etymology
From Gaulish *bitu, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā, *betu, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷetu-yo-s, *gʷetw-iyo-s, from *gʷet-.[1][2]
Compare Welsh bedwen. See also Latin bitūmen (“tar”), which was instead borrowed through another Italic language.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /beˈtul.la/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /beˈtul.la/,
Noun
betulla f (genitive betullae); first declension
- birch tree
Notes
- The form betula as meaning "birch tree" appears to have been discarded from antique lexicography altogether since the 20th century, as it does not appear in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, nor in the Oxford Latin Dictionary. However, betula was common in early New Latin.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | betulla | betullae |
| genitive | betullae | betullārum |
| dative | betullae | betullīs |
| accusative | betullam | betullās |
| ablative | betullā | betullīs |
| vocative | betulla | betullae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: betulă
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: betulla
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betullus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betūlus
- Borrowings:
References
- “betulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 64
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 326