Etymology

Birkeland

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Today it means: A surname from Norwegian. Full definition →

Norwegian Birkeland ← Old Norse birkja
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombirkja“birch”
  2. Norwegian · borrowed fromBirkeland
  3. English todayBirkeland

Borrowed from Norwegian Birkeland, from Old Norse birkja (“birch”) + land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.