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bairn abirn biarn ibarn aibrn iabrn barin abrin brain rbain arbin rabin biran ibran brian rbian irban riban airbn iarbn aribn raibn irabn riabn bainr abinr bianr ibanr aibnr iabnr banir abnir bnair nbair anbir nabir binar ibnar bniar nbiar inbar nibar ainbr ianbr anibr naibr inabr niabr barni abrni brani rbani arbni rabni banri abnri bnari nbari anbri nabri brnai rbnai bnrai nbrai rnbai nrbai arnbi ranbi anrbi narbi rnabi nrabi birna ibrna brina rbina irbna ribna binra ibnra bnira nbira inbra nibra brnia rbnia bnria nbria rnbia nrbia irnba rinba inrba nirba rniba nriba airnb iarnb arinb rainb iranb rianb ainrb ianrb anirb nairb inarb niarb arnib ranib anrib narib rnaib nraib irnab rinab inrab nirab rniab nriab

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Definitions and meaning of bairn

bairn

Etymology

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

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /bern/, /bɛrn/
• (Northumberland, North Durham, rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛəʁn/
• (UK, rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛəɹn/
• (UK, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛən/, /ˈbɛːn/
• (US, Canada, Ireland, West Country) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɚn/

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, -ɛːn, -aːn

Noun

bairn (plural bairns)

1. (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:child.

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Verb

bairn (third-person singular simple present bairns, present participle bairning, simple past and past participle bairned)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To make pregnant.

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “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

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)

1. child

Derived terms

• bairnheid
• bairnie
• grandbairn
• stap-bairn

Descendants

• → English: bairn

Verb

bairn (third-person singular simple present bairns, present participle bairnin, simple past bairnt, past participle bairnt)

1. to make pregnant

References

• “bairn” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.