бирка

See also: birka and birkā

Russian
Бирка на ухе овцы

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): [ˈbʲirkə]

Noun

би́рка • (bírka) f inan (genitive би́рки, nominative plural би́рки, genitive plural би́рок)

  1. nameplate, label, tag
    Synonym: ярлы́к (jarlýk)
  2. (historical) tally stick (notched piece of wood used for keeping an account)

Declension
Declension of би́рка (inan fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc) 
singular plural
nominative би́рка
bírka		 би́рки
bírki
genitive би́рки
bírki		 би́рок
bírok
dative би́рке
bírke		 би́ркам
bírkam
accusative би́рку
bírku		 би́рки
bírki
instrumental би́ркой, би́ркою
bírkoj, bírkoju		 би́рками
bírkami
prepositional би́рке
bírke		 би́рках
bírkax

Descendants
  • → Finnish: pirkka

References
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бирка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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