Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bъrščь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *burštjás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥s-t-yós, from *bʰers- (“top, tip, point”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰr̥štíš (“top, point”).

Noun

*bъ̃rščь m

1. hogweed

Inflection

Declension of *bъ̃rščь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bъ̃rščь	*bъrščà	*bъrščì
genitive	*bъrščà	*bъrščù	*bъ̃rščь
dative	*bъrščù	*bъrščèma	*bъ̃rščemъ
accusative	*bъ̃rščь	*bъrščà	*bъrščę̇̀
instrumental	*bъrščь̀mь, *bъrščèmь*	*bъrščèma	*bъ̃ršči
locative	*bъrščì	*bъrščù	*bъ̃rščixъ
vocative	*bъršču	*bъrščà	*bъrščì

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *boršьno (“flour; food, meal”)
  • *boršьňa, *boršьna
  • *boršьnikъ
  • *boršьnьnъ
• *bъrъ (“foxtail millet”)
  • *bъrěnъ
  • *bъrica
  • *bъrikъ, *bъrika

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *бърщь (*bŭrščĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: борщъ (boršč), борсчъ (borsč)
      • Belarusian: боршч (boršč)
      • Ukrainian: борщ (boršč), (dialectal) боршьшь (boršʹšʹ)
        • → Yiddish: באָרשט (borsht)
          • → English: borscht
        • → Polish: barszcz (“borscht”) (since the 18ᵗʰ c.)
          • → English: barszcz
          • → Esperanto: barĉo
        • → Romanian: borș
        • → Russian: борщ (boršč, “borscht”) (since the 18ᵗʰ c.)
          • → Armenian: բորշ (borš)
          • → Bulgarian: борш (borš)
          • → Czech: boršč
          • → Kashubian: bôršč
          • → Japanese: ボルシチ (borushichi)
          • → Macedonian: боршч (boršč)
          • → Mongolian: борщ (boršč)
          • → Serbo-Croatian:

            Cyrillic script: бо̏ршч

            Latin script: bȍršč

          • → Slovak: boršč
          • → Slovene: boršč
    • Middle Russian: борщъ (boršč), борщь (borščʹ, “hogweed”) (16-17ᵗʰ c.)
      • Russian: борщ (boršč), борщь (borščʹ, “hogweed”) (obsolete); борш (borš) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Slovene: br̀šč
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bršť
  • Old Polish: *barszcz
    • Polish: barszcz (“hogweed”)
      • → Old Ruthenian: барщъ (baršč)
        • Belarusian: баршч (baršč)
  • Slovak: bršt
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: baršć
    • Lower Sorbian: baršć

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “борщ”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 236
• Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1962–1972) “борщ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 1 (А – Ґ), Winnipeg: Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, →LCCN, page 179
• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1978), “боршч”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 1 (А – бячэ́йка), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 372
• Anikin, A. E. (2011) “борщ”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 4 (боле – бтарь), Moscow: Znak, →ISBN, page 101
• Vasmer, Max (1964) “борщ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – Д), Moscow: Progress, page 198
• Shansky, N. M. (1965) “борщ”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 2 (Б), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 173
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “борщ”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 105
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “борщ”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 39