betulla

Borrowed from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

Compare Portuguese bétula, Spanish abedul, Catalan bedoll, French bouleau.

betulla f (plural betulle)

1. birch

• betulla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• betūla? (Medieval Latin)
• betula (medieval?, early New Latin)

From Gaulish *bitu, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā, *betu, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷetu-yo-s, *gʷetw-iyo-s, from *gʷet-.[1][2]

Compare Welsh bedwen. See also Latin bitūmen (“tar”), which was instead borrowed through another Italic language.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /beˈtul.la/, [bɛˈt̪ʊlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /beˈtul.la/, [beˈt̪ulːä]

betulla f (genitive betullae); first declension

1. birch tree.

• The form betula as meaning "birch tree" appears to have been discarded from antique lexicography altogether since the 20th century, as it does not appear in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, nor in the Oxford Latin Dictionary. However, betula was common in early New Latin.

First-declension noun.

• betulus

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: betulă
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: betulla
• Padanian:
  • Lombard: bedola, bedoia, bèula

    Alpine: bedora, bedra

    Ossolano: bèula

  • Piedmontese: biola, bola, bèula
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: biôla, bêla
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: abetocha
  • Gascon: bedora
  • Vivaro-Alpine: bèula (Valadas)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betullus
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: bedul
    • Lombard: bedoi, bedogn
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: beoule, boul, bououle
      • ⇒ French: bouleau
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: abetoch
    • Catalan: bedoll
    • Gascon: bedoth, betoth
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betūlus
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: bido ⇒ bidueiro
    • Portuguese: vido ⇒ vidoeiro
    • Spanish: abedul
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: bétula
  • → Translingual: Betula

• “betulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press