birchen

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*birkīnaz“made of birch”
2. Old English · inherited frombircen
3. Middle English · inherited frombirchen
4. English todaybirchen

From Middle English birchen, birken, from Old English bircen, *biercen, beorcen (“made of birch, birchen”), from Proto-Germanic *birkīnaz (“made of birch”), equivalent to birch + -en. Cognate with Scots birken, birkin (“birchen”), Dutch berken (“birchen”), Low German berken (“birchen”), German birken (“birchen”).

Words from the same roots