betulaceous tree, alder or birch (whereof the disyllables more often alder and the monosyllables birch) · mountain ash, rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
çekim: çoğul توسکاها
köken: Borrowed from Mazanderani توسکا (tuskā), تسکا (teskā), توسا (tusā), تسا (tosā, “alder”). Apparently ultimately Mongolic, Mongolian хус (xus, “birch”), with the ending ـا (-â) as in many Mongolic nouns auslauting in -аа (-aa); correspondingly, Persian قان (qân, “birch”) is from Turkic.
köken: From Old Swedish al, from Old Norse ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Danish el, Norwegian older), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olьxa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éliseh₂, from *h₂élis-. Cognate with Belarusian во́льха (vólʹxa), Bulgarian елха́ (elhá), Polish olcha.
alder (any of the trees in the genus Alnus) · grey alder (Alnus incana) · blood
çekim: çoğul lepät · tamlayan lepän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *leppä (compare Estonian lepp, Veps lep), possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *léiˀpāˀ (“linden tree”) (compare Latvian liepa), if the Finnic and Baltic words are not of common substrate origin. Also related to Erzya лепе (lepe). * (blood): Euphemistic; refers to the fact that the wood of the alder tree turns red when cut.
From Old Norse elri (“alder”), cf. ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Swedish al, Norwegian Bokmål older), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.