| This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry birschen. | Random word Special:RandomInCategory/Annotated entries in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language |
birschen, verb, from the equivalent Middle High German birsen, ‘to chase with hounds, to shoot deer’; s after r became sch, as in Arsch, barsch, Dorsche, herrschen, Hirsch, Kirsche, Kürschner, wirsch; from Old French berser (Middle Latin bersare), ‘to pierce with an arrow.’