bairn

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern. === Pronunciation === (rhotic) IPA(key): /bɛərn/ (Scotland) IPA(key): [bern], [bɛrn] (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): [bɜːɹn] (Northumbria, rare) IPA(key): [bɛəʁn] (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /bɛən/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [bɛːn] (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): [bɜːn] In some areas (e.g. Bradford), pronounced as IPA(key): /ˈbaːn/. See Etymology 2 under barn. (See page 216 in Joseph Wright's A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill). Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)n, -ɑː(ɹ)n === Noun === bairn (plural bairns) (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:child. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === bairn (third-person singular simple present bairns, present participle bairning, simple past and past participle bairned) (transitive, Scotland) To get (someone) pregnant. ==== References ==== Frank Graham, editor (1987), “BAIRN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN. Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “bairn”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[1], archived from the original on 5 September 2024. Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4 Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2] Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “bairn”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “bairn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. “bairn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === References === “bairn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. === Anagrams === Barin, Brain, Brian, Rabin, abrin, brain, brian == Scots == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, descendant, offspring, issue, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, bring forth”). Cognate with West Frisian bern (“child”), North Frisian baern, born (“child”), Middle High German barn (“child, son, daughter”), Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic barn (“child”), Albanian barrë (“pregnancy, child”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bern/, /bɛrn/ === Noun === bairn (plural bairns) child ==== Derived terms ==== bairnheid bairnie grandbairn ==== Descendants ==== → English: bairn === Verb === bairn (third-person singular simple present bairns, present participle bairnin, simple past and past participle bairnt) to make pregnant === References === “barne, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. “bairn, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.