beorc
Old English
Alternative Forms
- berc, byrc, byric
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *berku, from Proto-Germanic *berkō (compare Old Norse bjǫrk), variant of *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.
Noun
beorc f (West Saxon)
- A birch tree.
- A poplar.
- The runic character ᛒ
Synonyms
- bierce
References
beorc in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary