Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Missouri, United States. · An unincorporated community in Marsh Township, Surry County, North Carolina, United States. · Former name of Delbarton: a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.
From Middle English birche (“birch”), from Old English bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ.
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