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Beith is the Irish name of the Ogham letter ᚁ, meaning "birch". In Old Irish, the letter name was beithe, which is related to Welsh bedw(en), Breton bezv(enn), and Latin betula. Its Proto-Indo-European root was *gʷet- 'resin, gum'. Its phonetic value is [b]. Jump to: navigation, search Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages. ... Jump to: navigation, search Species Many species; see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ... Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language which can be more or less fully reconstructed from extant sources. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Jump to: navigation, search Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The Proto-Indo-Europeans are the hypothetical speakers of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language, a prehistoric people of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. ...

See also: Berkanan Berkanan is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the b-rune ᛒ, meaning birch. In the Younger Futhark it is called bjarken in Icelandic and bjarkan in Norse. ...