beorc
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *berku.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]beorc f (West Saxon)
- A birch tree.
- A poplar.
- The runic character ᛒ
- The Old English rune poem
- ᛒ byþ blēda lēas...
- Birch is without fruit...
- The Old English rune poem
Declension
[edit]Declension of beorc (strong ō-stem)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “beorc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.