*barkuz

Runic: ᛒᚨᚱᚲᚢᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈbɑr.kuz/

noun · masculine · u-stem

Meanings

bark of a tree

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ-ó-s (‘birch’, source of Lithuanian béržas, Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá) (bhūrjá) all meaning ‘birch’), reformulated as a u-stem. Related to *berkō (‘birch’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	barkuz	barkiwiz
Acc.	barkų	barkunz
Gen.	barkauz	barkiwǫ̂
Dat.	barkiwi	barkumaz
Inst.	barkū	barkumiz
Voc.	barku	barkiwiz

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Descendants

*bark (Old Frisian)
- Boark (Saterland Frisian)
- berk (West Frisian)
*barku (Old Saxon)
- barke, borke (Middle Low German)
  - Borke (German)
  - Boarke (Saterland Frisian)
*barku (Old Saxon)
- barke, borke (Middle Low German)
  - Bark, Borke (Low German)
    - Boakj (Plautdietsch)
*bark, *berk (Old Dutch)
- barc, berc (Middle Dutch)
  - bark (Dutch)
bǫrkr (Old Norse)
- børkur, bark (Faroese)
- börkur (Icelandic)
- bork, bork’e, børk (Norwegian Nynorsk)
bǫrkr (Old Norse)
- bark (Old Danish)
  - bark (Danish)
    - bark (Norwegian Bokmål)
bǫrkr (Old Norse)
- barc (Old English)
  - bark, barke (Middle English)
    - bark (English)
    - bark (Scots)
bǫrkr (Old Norse)
- barker (Old Swedish)
  - bark (Swedish)
*pārkkō (Proto-Samic)

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