бьрковьске

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Old Novgorodian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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First attested in c. 1140‒1160. Shortened from *бьрковьске пѫде (*bĭrkovĭske pǫde, “pood from the city of Birka”). By surface analysis, *Бьркꙑ (*Bĭrky) +‎ -ове (-ove) +‎ -ьске (-ĭske) or +‎ -овьске (-ovĭske), borrowed from Old Norse Birka (“a port city in medieval Sweden”), ultimately from birki- (“birchen”), bjǫrk (“birch”). Compare Estonian perkapund, dialectal põrgepund (“ship-pound”) < Old Swedish *biærköa pund, while Old Norse *birkiskr pund could serve as a model for Old Novgorodian *бьрковьске пѫде (*bĭrkovĭske pǫde) and Old East Slavic *бьрковьскъ пѫдъ (*bĭrkovĭskŭ pǫdŭ).[1]

Cognate with Old East Slavic бьрковьскъ (bĭrkovĭskŭ), Old Ruthenian берковескъ (berkovesk).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: бь‧рко‧вь‧ске

Noun

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бьрковьске • (bĭrkovĭske) m

  1. berkovets (an old unit of weight, approximately 164 kilograms or 10 poods)
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Old Novgorodian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerHǵ-‎ (0 c, 2 e)

References

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  1. ^ Anikin, A. E. (2009) “бéрковец”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 132

Further reading

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  • Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 711
  • “бьрковьске”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024
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