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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/berkō
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos. Cognate with Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá, “a species of birch”), Proto-Slavic *berza (“birch”).
Noun
*berkō f
- birch
Inflection
ō-stemDeclension of *berkō (ō-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *berkō | *berkôz | |
vocative | *berkō | *berkôz | |
accusative | *berkǭ | *berkōz | |
genitive | *berkōz | *berkǫ̂ | |
dative | *berkōi | *berkōmaz | |
instrumental | *berkō | *berkōmiz |
Related terms
- *berkaną
Derived terms
- *birkijǭ
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *berku
- Old English: beorc
- Old Dutch: *berka
- Middle Dutch: berke
- Dutch: berk
- Middle Dutch: berke
- Old High German: birka, biricha
- Middle High German: birke, birche
- German: Birke
- Middle High German: birke, birche
- Old Norse: bjǫrk
- Icelandic: björk
- Faroese: bjørk
- Norwegian: bjørk; (dialectal) bjerk (< bjarkar), børk
- → Danish: bjørk, bjerk
- Norwegian Bokmål: bjørk, bjerk
- → Danish: bjørk, bjerk
- Elfdalian: byörk
- Westrobothnian: bjerk
- Old Swedish: biork
- Swedish: björk
- Old Danish: birk, *biork
- Danish: birk
- Gutnish: bjärk
- Scanian: birk