The story
- Old English · inherited frombirċe“birch”
- English todayBirchmore
From Old English birċe (“birch”) + either an assimilated (labialized) form of mere (“pond, lake”) or else mōr (“moor, mountain”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishbirċe all →
birchBurchfieldBriscoBirchallbircherBirchley
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.