Bir kとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English birk, birke, byrke, a northern variant of Middle English birche (“birch”). More at birch. (tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

名詞

birk (複数形 birks)

1. (Northern England) A birch tree.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, stanza I, page 56:

     Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.

2. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

名詞

birk (複数形 birks)

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk

参照

• “birk” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.