kirsebær
Danish
noun
Definitions
- a cherry (fruit)
- a cherry tree
Etymology
Derived from Middle Low German kersebere, kerse (cherry) + Middle Low German bere (berry)derived from Latin ceresia, ceresium, cerasium derived from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (cherry, cherry fruit), κερασός (bird cherry, cherry).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κερασός
Gloss
bird cherry, cherry
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
桜
Emoji
🌸 🍒
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *cerasiārius Latin
- cerasium Latin
- cerasus Latin
- cerasĕa Latin
- ceresia Latin
- ceresiam Latin
- ceresium Latin
- cornus Latin
- Kirsche German
- ciliegia Italian
- cerise French
- κεράσιον Ancient Greek
- κερασός Ancient Greek
- κερᾰσός Ancient Greek
- χαμαικέρασος Ancient Greek
- kirsebær Norwegian Bokmål
- kirsebær Norwegian Nynorsk
- ċiris Old English
- ber Old Norse
- blåbær Danish
- bær Danish
- enebær Danish
- hyldebær Danish
- kirsebærtærte Danish
- solbær Danish
- tranebær Danish
- tærte Danish
- *čeršьňa Proto-Slavic
- cerise Old French
- cirera Catalan, Valencian
- cireașă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- κεράσι Greek (modern)
- kerse Middle Dutch
- kirsa Old High German
- Giresun Turkish
- kirsuber Faroese
- kirsuberjatræ Faroese
- kirse Middle High German
- qershi Albanian
- קאַרש Yiddish
- *kirsijā gmw-pro
- cereyja Old Portuguese
- *keresyā Proto-Celtic
- bere Middle Low German
- kerse Middle Low German
- kersebere Middle Low German
- khèrsch Cimbrian
- cireashã Aromanian
- cirishar Aromanian
- tsireashã Aromanian
- kirsebär Old Swedish
- tscharescha Romansh
- tschariescha Romansh
- tscherescha Romansh
- tschirescha Romansh
- cereza Asturian
- cjariese Friulian
- ceresa Old Spanish
- çêxa Ligurian
- cris Dalmatian
- Kasch Pennsylvania German
- կեռաս Middle Armenian
- 𒄑𒈢𒆳𒊏 Akkadian
- cerize Bourguignon
- sareza Istriot
- cherise ONF.
- sciresa Lombard