bjørkje

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

birka, birke, birkja, birkje, bjørka, bjørke, bjørkja, byrka, byrke, byrkja, byrkje[1][2]

Etymology

From Old Norse birkja,[3] from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ. Cognate with English birch.

Noun

bjørkje f (definite singular bjørkja, indefinite plural bjørkjer, definite plural bjørkjene)

birch sap
Synonym: bjørkesaft

Related terms

bjørk f (“birch”)

References

"Innstilling til ny rettskriving for det nynorske skriftmålet" (in Norwegian) p. 51
Ivar Aasen (1850) “Byrkja”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎ (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
“bjørkje” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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