bjǫrk

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *berkō. === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /bjɒrk/ === Noun === bjǫrk f (genitive bjarkar) birch, birch tree ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== birki- birkinn (“birchen”) birkja f (“birch-juice”) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: björk Faroese: bjørk Norwegian: bjørk; (dialectal) bjerk (< bjarkar), børk → Danish: bjørk, bjerk Norwegian Bokmål: bjørk, bjerk Elfdalian: byörk Old Swedish: biork Swedish: björk Old Danish: birk, *biork Danish: birk Gutnish: bjärk Scanian: birk === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “björk”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 56; also available at the Internet Archive