Noun: birk
Sample Sentences
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Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave. [1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56:]
Nouns inflected like birk
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Northern Middle English birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern Middle English birche). More at birch.
2. (tree): Cognate with Scots birk. See: Middle English Nouns '
birche'.