different between birken vs mirken

English

Etymology

From Middle English birchen, birken, from Old English bircen, *biercen, beorcen (“made of birch, birchen”), from Proto-Germanic *birk?naz (“made of birch”). Cognate with English birchen, Dutch berken (“birchen”), Low German berken (“birchen”), German birken (“birchen”).

Adjective

birken (not comparable)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland and Northern England) Made of birch; birchen.

German

Etymology

Birke +? -en

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??kn?/

Adjective

birken (not comparable)

1. birchen

Declension

Scots

Alternative forms

• birkin

Etymology

birk +? -en.From Middle English birken, birchen, from Old English bircen, *biercen, beorcen (“made of birch, birchen”), from Proto-Germanic *birk?naz (“made of birch”). Cognate with English birchen, Dutch berken, Low German berken, German birken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?rk?n/, /?b?rk?n/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /?b?rk?n/

Adjective

birken (not comparable)

1. Made of, consisting of, pertaining to birch; birchen.

Derived terms

• birkenshaw

English

Etymology

From Middle English mirkenen, merknen, from Old Norse myrkna (“to darken”). Cognate with Icelandic myrkna (“to darken”), Swedish mörkna (“to get dark, darken”), Danish mørkne (“to darken”), equivalent to mirk +? -en. More at murk.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)k?n

Verb

mirken (third-person singular simple present mirkens, present participle mirkening, simple past and past participle mirkened)

1. (intransitive, Scotland, rare) To grow dark.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirken.

Derived terms

• mirkening

Anagrams

• merkin