"Anyone know what the Gothic form of Beorc would be?"

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--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at ...> wrote:
>
>  Anyone know what the Gothic form of Beorc would be? Would it be Biurks?

The Gothic form corresponding to Old English 'beorc' would be:
*baírka. Although the word is not recorded in the corpus of Biblical
Gothic, one possible trace of a related word survives in the letter
name recorded as 'bercna' in the Vienna-Salzburg Codex. Incidentally,
the reconstruction *baírka was used by JRR Tolkien in his Gothic poem
Bagme Bloma.

LN

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