Where does “birchen” come from?

birchen (Middle English) comes from Middle English birche, from Old English birċe, from Proto-West Germanic birkijā, from Proto-Germanic birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European bʰerHǵos — birch.

birchen (Middle English): Made of birchwood; Covered with birch trees

Definitions

  1. Made of birchwood; Covered with birch trees

Ancestry of “birchen”, step by step

birchen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English birche

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbirchebirch; mastic
2Old Englishbirċe—
3Proto-West Germanicbirkijābirch
4Proto-Germanicbirkijǭbirch
5Proto-Indo-EuropeanbʰerHǵosbirch

via Old English bircen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishbircenbirchen; made of birch
2Proto-Germanicbirkīnazbirchen, made of birch
3Proto-Germanic-īnaz-en
4Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
5Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix

Words derived from “birchen”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰerHǵos →Every word from Proto-Germanic birkijǭ →Every word from Proto-West Germanic birkijā →