Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “bʰerHǵs”

76 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰerHǵs — including birch, birchen, birchbark, birchwood, birk, birken, bircher, birchy.

See the etymology of bʰerHǵs itself →

English (9)

Middle English (6)

Czech (4)

Polish (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Scots (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Proto-Slavic (3)

Russian (2)

Ukrainian (2)

Latvian (2)

German (2)

Old English (2)

Old High German (2)

Swedish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Faroese (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Old Prussian (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Slovak (1)

Slovene (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Slovincian (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)