birkja

birkja f (definite singular birkja, indefinite plural birkjer or birkjor, definite plural birkjene or birkjone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of bjørkje
2. definite singular of birkje (non-standard since 2012)

From Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ.

birkja f (genitive birkju)

1. birch juice

• birki-
• birkinn (“birchen”)
• bjǫrk f (“birch”)

• Icelandic: birkja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: byrkje, birkje, bjørkje

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “birkja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From bǫrkr (“bark”).

birkja (singular past indicative birkti, plural past indicative birkta, past participle birktr)

1. to bark, to strip off the bark from a tree

• Norwegian Nynorsk: berkja

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “birkja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• “birkja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.