Noun: birch
| Singular | birch |
| Plural | birches |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like birch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *bʰerHǵós
3. From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.
4. Cognates
5. Compare West Frisian bjirk, German Birke, variant of *berkō (compare Dutch berk, Danish birk, Swedish björk, Norwegian bjørk), Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá), Lithuanian béržas, Czech bříza, Ossetian бӕрз (bærz), Russian берёза (berjóza)), Latin fraxinus (“ash tree, ash javelin”), Albanian bredh. See: Middle English Nouns '
birche', Old English Nouns '
birċe', German Nouns '
Birke', Dutch Nouns '
berk', Swedish Nouns '
björk', Czech Nouns '
bříza', Russian Nouns '
берёза', Latin Nouns '
fraxinus'.
Verbs referencing "birch"
German Nouns
Birke, Faroese Nouns
bjørk, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
bjørk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
bjørk, Latin Nouns
fraxinus, Galician Nouns
bido, Latvian Nouns
bērzs, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
bjerk, Latin Nouns
farnus, Galician Nouns
bídalo, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
bjørkje.