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)

  1. A birch tree.
  2. A poplar.
  3. The runic character ᛒ

Synonyms

References

beorc in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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