berse
Old French
Verb
berse
- inflection of berser:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Old Prussian
Etymology
Berse = berze, with s due to German orthography. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *berźas, *berźā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *berza, Latvian bȩ̃rzs, bẽrze and Lithuanian béržas.
Noun
berse f
- birch
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
- Birke Berse
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
- “beržas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012