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бересклет

Russian

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Берескле́т – Euonymus europaeus
 
Распростране́ние берескле́та европе́йского – Distribution of Euonymi europaei

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Etymology

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Uncertain; the plant itself is rarely used, so the name of the plant is also rarely mentioned, resulting in various variants of the original name.

In its present state the Russian form is a blend of different names for various plant names, including any combination of бе́рест (bérest, “elm”), берёза (berjóza, “birch”), ве́реск (véresk, “heather”), брусни́ка (brusníka, “ligonberry”), клён (kljon, “maple”), хме́ль (xmélʹ, “hop”) and дёрен (djóren, “dogwood”). Akin to Ukrainian берескле́т (beresklét).

The Russian term may be borrowed from Ukrainian. This is supported by the plant's distribution and the fact that the stressed -е- hasn't become -ё-. However, the latter could be a result of the term's uncommonness. Furthermore, the alternatively stressed variant бере́склет (berésklet), found in the 19th century may have gone against this regular change.

Cognates and further relations

The related Slavic terms used for spindle-tree are Belarusian брызглі́на (bryzhlína), Ukrainian брусли́на (bruslýna), Polish trzmielina, Czech brslen and Slovak bršlen. Serbo-Croatian bršlenka is only known from a mention by Bogoslav Šulek.

Furthermore, similar terms denoting the ivy can be found in various Slavic languages:

Standard Bulgarian бръшля́н (brǎšlján) (also бръшел (brǎšel), брешлян (brešljan), брешнял (brešnjal), брошлен (brošlen), брушлен (brušlen), бръчнел (brǎčnel), крушнел (krušnel)), Standard Macedonian бршлен (bršlen) (also бршлан (bršlan)), Slovene bršljȃn and Serbo-Croatian br̀šljan, Czech břečťan and Slovak brečtan (see there for other forms), Old Polish brzeszczan (also brzecztan, brzesztan, brzestan, brzostan), Ukrainian бречитан (brečytan) (also беречан (berečan), борощаник (boroščanyk), прочитан (pročytan)). The term has been borrowed early into Hungarian borostyán (“ivy”) and boroszlán (“daphne”) (also boraszlán, boroslán, boroslány, buruslán, boroszlyány, borosnyán, borosnyány, burusnyán), Romanian boroșlean and Macedo-Greek μπρούσλιανη (broúsliani), μπρούσλου (broúslou).

Skok proposes this complex is an Illyrian borrowing, since a derivation from Proto-Slavic *brъstь (“grazed crop”) is doubtful; Sköld dismisses a Slavic origin, due to Proto-Slavic *bľuščь (“ivy”), which is unrelated but akin in meaning. The Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages unifies the terms for ivy and spindle-tree under one form.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [bʲɪrʲɪˈsklʲet]
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Noun

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берескле́т • (beresklét) m inan (genitive берескле́та, nominative plural берескле́ты, genitive plural берескле́тов)

  1. spindle tree (Euonymus gen. et spp.)

Declension

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Declension of берескле́т (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative берескле́т
beresklét 		берескле́ты
bereskléty
genitive берескле́та
bereskléta 		берескле́тов
beresklétov
dative берескле́ту
beresklétu 		берескле́там
beresklétam
accusative берескле́т
beresklét 		берескле́ты
bereskléty
instrumental берескле́том
beresklétom 		берескле́тами
beresklétami
prepositional берескле́те
bereskléte 		берескле́тах
beresklétax

References

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  • Anikin, A. E. (2009) “бересклет”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 123
  • Ша́хматов, Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович (1912) “Slavische Wörter für Epheu”, in Festschrift: Vilhelm Thomsen zur Vollendung des siebzigsten Lebensjahres am 25. Januar 1912 (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 192–197
  • Skok, Petar (1971) “бересклет”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 218
  • Sköld, Hannes (1922) “Zur Chronologie der štokavischen Akzentverschiebung. Nachtrag”, in Lunds universitetets årsskrift. Ny följd. Första avdelningen. Teologi, juridik och humanistiska ämnen (in German), volume XVIII, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 87–89
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*brъščьľanъ, brъščьlenъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 59
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бересклет”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Ukrainian

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берескле́т
 
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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown, see Russian берескле́т (beresklét).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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берескле́т • (beresklét) m inan (genitive берескле́та, nominative plural берескле́ти, genitive plural берескле́тів)

  1. (dialectal) spindle tree (Euonymus gen. et spp.)

Declension

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Declension of берескле́т (inan hard masc-form accent-a)
singular plural
nominative берескле́т
beresklét 		берескле́ти
bereskléty
genitive берескле́та
bereskléta 		берескле́тів
beresklétiv
dative берескле́тові, берескле́ту
beresklétovi, beresklétu 		берескле́там
beresklétam
accusative берескле́т
beresklét 		берескле́ти
bereskléty
instrumental берескле́том
beresklétom 		берескле́тами
beresklétamy
locative берескле́ті
bereskléti 		берескле́тах
beresklétax
vocative берескле́те
bereskléte 		берескле́ти
bereskléty

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