Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• (from Church Slavonic): брѣза ‎(brěza)

Noun

береза ‎(bereza) f

1. birch

Descendants

• Belarusian: бяро́за ‎(bjaróza)
• Russian: берёза ‎(berjóza)
• Ukrainian: бере́за ‎(beréza)

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

Noun

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

1. birch (tree or wood)

Declension

References

• Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980), “береза”, in Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka