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birchen

birchen adjective: made from birch wood.

Adjective

birchen (not comparable)

  1. Made from birch wood.

Forms of birchen

alternative formbirken

Origin of birchen

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

Questions about birchen

What does birchen mean?
Birchen means made from birch wood.
What part of speech is birchen?
Birchen is an adjective.

Words near birchen in the dictionary

  1. Birchards
  2. birchbark
  3. birchbarks
  4. Birchden
  5. birched
  6. birchen
  7. bircher
  8. Bircher muesli
  9. Bircher mueslis
  10. birchers
  11. birches

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