Birken

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made of birch; birchen. Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete

    "Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill"

Adjective
  1. 1
    consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree wordnet

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birchbirchenbirchen

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"Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill"

Etymology

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

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