betulla

betulla

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

Compare Portuguese bétula, Spanish abedul, Catalan bedoll, French bouleau).

Noun

betulla f (plural betulle)

1. birch

Further reading

• betulla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Alternative forms

• betula

Etymology

From Gaulish *bitu, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā, *betu, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷetu-yo-s, *gʷetw-iyo-s, from *gʷet-.[1][2]

Compare Welsh bedwen. See also Latin bitūmen (“tar”), which was instead borrowed through another Italic language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /beˈtul.la/, [bɛˈt̪ʊlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /beˈtul.la/, [beˈt̪ulːä]

Noun

betulla f (genitive betullae); first declension

1. birch tree.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	betulla	betullae
Genitive	betullae	betullārum
Dative	betullae	betullīs
Accusative	betullam	betullās
Ablative	betullā	betullīs
Vocative	betulla	betullae

Derived terms

• betulus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: betulă
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: betulla
• Padanian:
  • Lombard: bedola, bedoia, bèula

    Alpine: bedora, bedra

    Ossolano: bèula

  • Piedmontese: biola, bola, bèula
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: biôla, bêla
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: abetocha
  • Gascon: bedora
  • Vivaro-Alpine: bèula (Valadas)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betullus
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: bedul
    • Lombard: bedoi, bedogn
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: beoule, boul, bououle
      • ⇒ French: bouleau
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: abetoch
    • Catalan: bedoll
    • Gascon: bedoth, betoth
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betūlus
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: bido ⇒ bidueiro
    • Portuguese: vido ⇒ vidoeiro
    • Spanish: abedul
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: bétula
  • → Translingual: Betula

References

• “betulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 64
2. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 326