береза

From Proto-Slavic *berza, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *berźas, *berźā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵs, *bʰerHǵeh₂.

Doublet of брѣза (brěza), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

береза (bereza) f

1. birch

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

• 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

береза • (berjóza) f inan

1. Alternative spelling of берёза (berjóza)

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• IPA^(key): [beˈrɛzɐ]

From Old East Slavic брѣза (brěza), from Proto-Slavic *berza. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.

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

1. birch (tree)
2. a hard wood taken from the birch tree

From older form березий (berezyj, “striped, white with black”), which is related to Bulgarian бряз (brjaz). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ-.

бере́за • (beréza) m anim (genitive бере́зи, nominative plural бере́зи)

1. (obsolete) leader at any activities (parties, choir, caroling etc.)

• Melʹnyčuk O. S., editor (1982), “береза”, in Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume I, Kiev: Naukova Dumka, page 171
• береза in Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980) Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka