Made from, containing, or relating to beech wood or beech trees.
From Old English 'bēcen,' an adjectival form of 'bēc' (beech). The '-en' suffix was used in Old English to form adjectives meaning 'made of' or 'belonging to,' similar to 'wooden' or 'golden.'
'-en' adjectives are dying out in English, but they were once super common—'wooden,' 'golden,' 'silken'—and they show how we used to be much more creative at making descriptive words from nouns using suffixes.
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