birchen

Meaning

Adjective

• Made from birch wood.

Origin

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