brečtan

See also: břečťan

Slovak

Alternative forms

  • (dialectal) brešťan, breštan, brštan

Etymology

Of Slavic origin, the exact reconstruction is difficult because of the diversity of forms. Probably cognate with Latin fraxinus from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥Hǵ-s-inos, adjective of *bʰerHǵós (“birch”). Another theory derives this word from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbret͡ʃtan]

Noun

brečtan m inan (relational adjective brečtanový)

  1. ivy

Declension

Declension of brečtan
(pattern dub)
singularplural
nominativebrečtanbrečtany
genitivebrečtana,
brečtanu		brečtanov
dativebrečtanubrečtanom
accusativebrečtanbrečtany
locativebrečtanebrečtanoch
instrumentalbrečtanombrečtanmi

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “brečtan”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 80

Further reading

  • “brečtan”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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