береза

From Proto-Slavic *bèrza. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic брѣза (brěza) and Old Polish brzoza.

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

• Hyphenation: бе‧ре‧за

береза (bereza) f

1. birch

• Old Ruthenian: бере́за (beréza), беро́за (beróza) — Middle Belarusian
  • Belarusian: бяро́за (bjaróza)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: бере́за (beréza)
  • Ukrainian: бере́за (beréza)
    • → Yiddish: בערעזע (bereze)
• Russian: берёза (berjóza)
  • → Yiddish: בעריאָזע (beryoze)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “береза”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 69

• беро́за (beróza) — Middle Belarusian

Inherited from Old East Slavic береза (bereza), from Proto-Slavic *bèrza, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérˀźāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵeh₂, from *bʰerHǵ-.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Cognate with Russian берёза (berjóza).

береза • (bereza) f (related adjective бере́зовый, diminutive бере́зка)

1. birch (tree)

• Belarusian: бяро́за (bjaróza)
• Carpathian Rusyn: бере́за (beréza)
• Ukrainian: бере́за (beréza)
  • → Yiddish: בערעזע (bereze)

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “береза”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 84
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “*береза¹”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 93
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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1982), “береза, бероза”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 1 (а – биенье), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 278
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1994), “береза”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 2 (б – богуславецъ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 75

береза • (berjóza) f inan

1. alternative spelling of берёза (berjóza)

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• IPA^(key): [beˈrɛzɐ]

From Middle Ukrainian береза (bereza), from Old East Slavic береза (bereza), from Proto-Slavic *berza, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *berźas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.

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

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

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

бере́за • (beréza) m pers (genitive бере́зи, nominative plural бере́зи, genitive plural бере́з)

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

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “береза”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2025), “береза”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–15 (а – п'ять), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “береза”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka