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