Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bьrlogъ

Etymology
. Possibly from, ultimately from. If correct, the original meaning of the term would have been an unnatural structure, perturbation (made by an animal). A similar semantic development is found in → (“hut”) (also from ).

A popular folk-etymology of the term derives it from German + Slavic ; however, most scholars discard this hypothesis.

Noun

 * 1) den, lair
 * 2) cave (secondary)
 * 1) cave (secondary)

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