bairnn.

Brit.

/bɛːn/, U.S.

/bɛ(ə)rn/, Scottish English

/bern/

Forms: α. Old English–Middle English bearn, Middle English bern, bærn, (Middle English byern,) 1600s berne, bearn. β. Old English–1800s barn (Middle English barrn, barin, Middle English baron), Middle English–1600s barne. γ. Middle English–1800s bairn.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English bearn = Old Frisian bern, Old Saxon, Old High German, Middle High German, Gothic, Old Norse, Danish, Swedish barn, (Middle Dutch baren) < Germanic *barno-(m), < beran to bear. Lost in German and Dutch; also in southern English, where the modern representation of Old English bearn would have been bern (compare fern) or barn (compare arm, warn). In fact, berne survived in the south to 1300, barn still survives in northern English, and was used by Shakespeare; bairn is the Scotch form (compare fairn, airm, wairn), occasionally used in literary English since 1700. It is doubtful whether the berne, bearn of some 17th cent. English writers was a survival of the early southern form, or a variant spelling of bairn. The plural bærn in Ormin is the Old Norse börn, hence it is probable that the northern singular barn is as much of Old Norse as of Old English origin.

A child; a son or daughter. (Expressing relationship, rather than age.)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun]

bairn830

childOE

foodc1225

whelp?c1225

birtha1325

first-begottenc1384

conceptiona1398

impc1412

heir1413

foddera1425

fryc1480

collop?1518

increase1552

spawn1589

under-bougha1661

prognate1663

chickadee1860

α.

OE Beowulf 529 Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþéowes.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 35 Ðæt ge sín eowres Fæder bearn.

c1160 Hatton G. Matt. v. 35 Eowres Fader bærn.

a1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 131 Alle þe bernes . þe ben boren of wifes bosem.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 199 Recabes sunen..helle bearnes.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 52 Suete Iesu, berne best.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. v. v. 661 Many faire louely Bernes to you betide.

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 58 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Have care of your Barnes.

a1687 Duke of Buckingham Pump-Parl. in Wks. (1705) II. 99 Our Bearns and Wives.

β. 830 in Thorpe Diplom. 465 His barna sue huelc sue lifes sie.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8039 Herode king. let slæn þa little barrness.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6808 Þatt wærenn noþess þrinne bærn.a1275 Prov. Alfred 589 in Old Eng. Misc. 135 Þu ard mi barin dere.1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 310 To se hir and hir barn.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 904 In sorow þou sal þi barnys [Vesp. berns, Gött. childer, Trin. Cambr. children] bere.a1400 Cov. Myst. (1841) 182 Alas, ywhy was my baron born.c1420 Anturs of Arth. xviii. 6 That blisfulle barne in Bedelem was born.1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. v. 108 To this daie, even the common sort doo call their male children barnes here in England, especiallie in the north countrie.a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 68 Mercy on's, a Barne? A very pretty barne; A boy, or a Childe I wonder? 1687 A. de la Pryme Diary (1870) i. 11 No one scarce believes that she [sc. the queen] is realy with barn.1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 276 Bearn, Barn, a Son, or Off~spring (a Word common with the Scotch, and our North-Countreymen).1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer 6 Bessy Marris's barne! tha knaws she laäid it to meä.γ. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 97 It is fors to me & vyf and bayrns to drynk vattir.c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 67 Efter them wes ane cart with certane bairnes.a1605 A. Montgomerie Poems (1821) 18 Burnt bairn with fyre the danger dreidis.a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr3/1 Has he not wel provided for the barne?1703 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 241 I wish..I had it for one of my poor bairns.1715 J. Arbuthnot Let. to Swift 6 Aug. in J. Swift Wks. (1814) XVI. 263 I wish I could return your compliments as to my wife and bairns.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. x. 25 That deep dark-eyed Scottish bairn was Robert Burns.1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 536 Harthacnut too..was at least a kingly bairn.

Compounds

(All northern dialect.)

bairn-dole n. child's portion.

ΚΠ

1858 R. C. Trench Parables (1877) xxiv. 393 The portion of goods that falleth to me; his ‘bairndole,’ as they would call it in Yorkshire.

bairn-like adj. child-like, adv. in child-like manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adverb]

childlya1425

bairn-likec1425

bairnly1483

childishly1533

babishly1551

puerilely1654

babyishly1829

babily1872

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xx. 111 That suld noucht han been done barnelike.

† bairn-part n. Obsolete child's portion.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > part to which child entitled

child's part1509

bairn-part1533

legitime1681

1533 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 112 That my sonne and..my dowghter have their barne partes of my goodes.

bairn-bed n. (also bairns-bed) womb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb

wombeOE

innethc888

bosom971

bitc1000

motherc1300

cloisterc1386

mawc1390

flanka1398

marisa1400

matricea1400

clausterc1400

mater?a1425

matrix?a1425

wamec1425

bellyc1440

oven?1510

bermother1527

child's bed1535

bairn-bedc1550

uterus1615

kelder1647

ventera1656

childbed1863

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 Ane vomans bayrnis bed [printed hed].

1863 Provinc. Danby (at cited word) She's got a swelling on the bairn bed.

† bairn-site n. Obsolete anxiety about children.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [noun] > about children

bairn-sitea1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11625 Ne haf yee for me na barn-site.

bairn's-play n. child's play.

ΚΠ

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxxviii. 226 To make it a matter of bairn's play.

bairn's-maid n. nurse-maid, nurse.

ΚΠ

1863 Reader 8 Apr. 386 Who was bairn's-maid to a daughter of the great philosopher.

bairn-woman n.

ΚΠ

1823 J. Galt Entail I. i. 2 Who, in her youth, was bairnswoman to his son.

Derivatives

Categories »

ˈbairnie n. northern dialect little child.

Categories »

ˈbairnish adj. northern dialect childish.

Categories »

ˈbairnishness n. northern dialect

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bairn
释义	bairnn. Brit. /bɛːn/, U.S. /bɛ(ə)rn/, Scottish English /bern/ Forms: α. Old English–Middle English bearn, Middle English bern, bærn, (Middle English byern,) 1600s berne, bearn. β. Old English–1800s barn (Middle English barrn, barin, Middle English baron), Middle English–1600s barne. γ. Middle English–1800s bairn. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English bearn = Old Frisian bern, Old Saxon, Old High German, Middle High German, Gothic, Old Norse, Danish, Swedish barn, (Middle Dutch baren) < Germanic barno-(m), < beran* to bear. Lost in German and Dutch; also in southern English, where the modern representation of Old English bearn would have been bern (compare fern) or barn (compare arm, warn). In fact, berne survived in the south to 1300, barn still survives in northern English, and was used by Shakespeare; bairn is the Scotch form (compare fairn, airm, wairn), occasionally used in literary English since 1700. It is doubtful whether the berne, bearn of some 17th cent. English writers was a survival of the early southern form, or a variant spelling of bairn. The plural bærn in Ormin is the Old Norse börn, hence it is probable that the northern singular barn is as much of Old Norse as of Old English origin. A child; a son or daughter. (Expressing relationship, rather than age.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] bairn830 childOE foodc1225 whelp?c1225 birtha1325 first-begottenc1384 conceptiona1398 impc1412 heir1413 foddera1425 fryc1480 collop?1518 increase1552 spawn1589 under-bougha1661 prognate1663 chickadee1860 α. OE Beowulf 529 Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecgþéowes. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 35 Ðæt ge sín eowres Fæder bearn. c1160 Hatton G. Matt. v. 35 Eowres Fader bærn. a1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 131 Alle þe bernes . þe ben boren of wifes bosem. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 199 Recabes sunen..helle bearnes. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 52 Suete Iesu, berne best. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. v. v. 661 Many faire louely Bernes to you betide. a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 58 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Have care of your Barnes. a1687 Duke of Buckingham Pump-Parl. in Wks. (1705) II. 99 Our Bearns and Wives. β. 830 in Thorpe Diplom. 465 His barna sue huelc sue lifes sie.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8039 Herode king. let slæn þa little barrness.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6808 Þatt wærenn noþess þrinne bærn.a1275 Prov. Alfred 589 in Old Eng. Misc. 135 Þu ard mi barin dere.1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 310 To se hir and hir barn.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 904 In sorow þou sal þi barnys [Vesp. berns, Gött. childer, Trin. Cambr. children] bere.a1400 Cov. Myst. (1841) 182 Alas, ywhy was my baron born.c1420 Anturs of Arth. xviii. 6 That blisfulle barne in Bedelem was born.1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. v. 108 To this daie, even the common sort doo call their male children barnes here in England, especiallie in the north countrie.a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 68 Mercy on's, a Barne? A very pretty barne; A boy, or a Childe I wonder? View more context for this quotation1687 A. de la Pryme Diary (1870) i. 11 No one scarce believes that she [sc. the queen] is realy with barn.1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 276 Bearn, Barn, a Son, or Off~spring (a Word common with the Scotch, and our North-Countreymen).1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer 6 Bessy Marris's barne! tha knaws she laäid it to meä.γ. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 97 It is fors to me & vyf and bayrns to drynk vattir.c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 67 Efter them wes ane cart with certane bairnes.a1605 A. Montgomerie Poems (1821) 18 Burnt bairn with fyre the danger dreidis.a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr3/1 Has he not wel provided for the barne?1703 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 241 I wish..I had it for one of my poor bairns.1715 J. Arbuthnot Let. to Swift 6 Aug. in J. Swift Wks. (1814) XVI. 263 I wish I could return your compliments as to my wife and bairns.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. x. 25 That deep dark-eyed Scottish bairn was Robert Burns.1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 536 Harthacnut too..was at least a kingly bairn. Compounds (All northern dialect.) bairn-dole n. child's portion. ΚΠ 1858 R. C. Trench Parables (1877) xxiv. 393 The portion of goods that falleth to me; his ‘bairndole,’ as they would call it in Yorkshire. bairn-like adj. child-like, adv. in child-like manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adverb] childlya1425 bairn-likec1425 bairnly1483 childishly1533 babishly1551 puerilely1654 babyishly1829 babily1872 c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xx. 111 That suld noucht han been done barnelike. † bairn-part n. Obsolete child's portion. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > part to which child entitled child's part1509 bairn-part1533 legitime1681 1533 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 112 That my sonne and..my dowghter have their barne partes of my goodes. bairn-bed n. (also bairns-bed) womb. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb wombeOE innethc888 bosom971 bitc1000 motherc1300 cloisterc1386 mawc1390 flanka1398 marisa1400 matricea1400 clausterc1400 mater?a1425 matrix?a1425 wamec1425 bellyc1440 oven?1510 bermother1527 child's bed1535 bairn-bedc1550 uterus1615 kelder1647 ventera1656 childbed1863 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 Ane vomans bayrnis bed [printed hed]. 1863 Provinc. Danby (at cited word) She's got a swelling on the bairn bed. † bairn-site n. Obsolete anxiety about children. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [noun] > about children bairn-sitea1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11625 Ne haf yee for me na barn-site. bairn's-play n. child's play. ΚΠ 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxxviii. 226 To make it a matter of bairn's play. bairn's-maid n. nurse-maid, nurse. ΚΠ 1863 Reader 8 Apr. 386 Who was bairn's-maid to a daughter of the great philosopher. bairn-woman n. ΚΠ 1823 J. Galt Entail I. i. 2 Who, in her youth, was bairnswoman to his son. Derivatives Categories » ˈbairnie n. northern dialect little child. Categories » ˈbairnish adj. northern dialect childish. Categories » ˈbairnishness n. northern dialect This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.830
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