Define:Bairn

Scots

Etymology

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

/bern/, /bɛrn/

Noun

bairn

1. A body that is no yet auld enuch tae be conseedert a grown adult

Derived terms

• bairnheid
• bairnie
• grandbairn
• stap-bairn

Verb

Bairn

1. Tae mak pregnant