On the etymoligy of the East Slavic phytonyms with the elements сорб-/серб
The paper discusses the etymology of the East Slavic names for blackberry and dog rose with the elements сорб-/серб-. The detailed analysis shows that appearantly they are not original for the Slavic languages as most of the researchers think. They were likely borrowed from Latin and their possible source can be the word sorbaria which is the name for the plant sorbaria. It belongs to the same plant family Rosaceae as blackberry and dog rose