береза

See also: берёза

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *berza, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *berźas, *berźā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵs, *bʰerHǵeh₂.

Doublet of брѣза (brěza), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

Noun

береза (bereza) f

  1. birch

Descendants

References

  • Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), береза”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 69

Russian

Noun

береза • (berjóza) f inan

  1. Alternative spelling of берёза (berjóza)

Ukrainian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic береза (bereza), from Proto-Slavic *berza, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *berźas, *berźā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵs, *bʰerHǵeh₂.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

бере́за (beréza) f inan (genitive бере́зи, nominative plural бере́зи)

  1. birch (tree or wood)

Declension

References

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