бирка
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Unclear. There are several hypotheses: a borrowing from a North Germanic word for birch, compare to Danish birk, Norwegian bjerk; a Turkic borrowing, compare to Turkish bir + iki (“one + two”); or a derivation from Old East Slavic събьрати (sŭbĭrati, “to assemble”) (modern Russian собира́ть (sobirátʹ)), from Proto-Slavic *bьrati (“to take”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
би́рка • (bírka) f inan (genitive би́рки, nominative plural би́рки, genitive plural би́рок)
- nameplate, label, tag
- Synonym: ярлы́к (jarlýk)
- (historical) tally stick (notched piece of wood used for keeping an account)
Declension edit
Declension of би́рка (inan fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
Descendants edit
- → Finnish: pirkka
References edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бирка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress