Animals & plants

birch

Source:*berzaProto-Slaviccertain

Pleophony in берёза, metathesis in brzoza, bříza and breza; Russian ё and Polish o both come from e before a hard z.

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English

birch

Polish

brzoza

ˈbʐɔza

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
берёзаberëza
bʲɪˈrʲozəinherited
Ukrainian
бере́заbereza
bɛˈrɛzainherited
Polish
brzoza
ˈbʐɔzainherited
Czech
bříza
ˈbr̝iːzainherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
brezaбреза
ˈbrezainherited
English
birch
Distant English relative — Birch and *berza share an Indo-European root for a bright tree.