бересто

Old Novgorodian

Etymology

First attested in c. 1140‒1160. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bersto, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *berˀźta, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ-t-óm, from *bʰerHǵós (birch). Cognate with Old East Slavic бересто (beresto).

Noun

бересто • (bereston

  1. birchbark (bark of the birch tree)

Declension

Old Novgorodian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerHǵ- (0 c, 2 e)

Descendants

  • Old Pskovian: беросто (berośto)

Further reading

  • Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 711
  • бересто”, in “Birchbark Letters Corpus”, in Russian National Corpus, https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2025