Define:Bairn
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Etymology eedit
Frae Middle Inglis barn, bern, frae Old English bearn (“child, son, descendant, offspring, issue, progeny”) and Template:Borrowed, both frae Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”), frae Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, bring forth”). Cognate wae Wast Frisian bern (“child”), North Frisian baern, born (“child”), Middle High German barn (“child, son, daughter”), Dens, Swadish, Norse, Faroese and Icelandic barn (“child”), Albanie barrë (“pregnancy, child”).
Pronunciation eedit
/bern/, /bɛrn/
Noun eedit
bairn[1]
- A body that is no yet auld enuch tae be conseedert a grown adult
Derived terms eedit
Verb eedit
Bairn[1]
- Tae mak pregnant