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bairn
(bɛən, in Sc. bern)
Forms: α. 1–3 bearn, 2–3 bern, bærn, (4 byern,) 7 berne, bearn. β. 1–9 barn (3 barrn, barin, 4 baron), 4–7 barne. γ. 5–9 bairn.
[Common Teutonic: OE. bearn = OFris. bern, OS., OHG., MHG., Goth., ON., Da., Sw. barn, (MDu. baren):—OTeut. *barno-(m), f. beran to bear. Lost in G. and Du.; also in southern Eng., where the modern repr. of OE. bearn would have been bern (cf. fern) or barn (cf. 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 (cf. fairn, airm, wairn), occasionally used in literary English since 1700. It is doubtful whether the berne, bearn of some 17th c. Eng. writers was a survival of the early southern form, or a variant spelling of bairn. The pl. bærn in Ormin is the ON. börn, hence it is probable that the northern singular barn is as much of ON. as of OE. origin.]
A child; a son or daughter. (Expressing relationship, rather than age.)
α Beowulf 1063 Beowulf maþelode, bearn Ecᵹþéowes. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. v. 35 Ðæt ᵹe sín eowres Fæder bearn. c1160Hatton G. ibid., Eowres Fader bærn. a1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 131 Alle þe bernes . þe ben boren of wifes bosem. c1230Ancr. R. 272 Recabes sunen..helle bearnes. c1300Wright Lyric P. xviii. 58 Suete Ihesu, berne best. 1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metam., Have care of your bearns. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. v. v, Many fair lovely bernes to you betide. a1688Dk. Buckhm. Pump Parl. Wks. 1705 II. 99 Our Bearns and Wives.
β830in Thorpe Diplom. 465 His barna sue huelc sue lifes sie. c1200Ormin 8039 Herode king let slæn þa little barrness. Ibid. 6808 Þatt wærenn Noþess þrinne bærn. a1275Prov. Alfred 589 in O.E. Misc. 135 Þu ard mi barin dere. 1330R. Brunne Chron. 310 To se hir and hir barn. c1340Cursor M. 904 (Fairf.) In sorow þou sal þi barnys bere [v.r. berns, childer, children]. a1400Cov. Myst. (1841) 182 Alas, ywhy was my baron born. c1420Anturs of Arth. xviii. 6 That blisfulle barne in Bedelem was born. 1577Harrison England ii. v. 108 To this daie, even the common sort doo call their male children barnes here in England, especiallie in the north countrie. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. ii. 70 Mercy on's, a Barne? A very pretty barne; A boy, or a Childe I wonder? 1687De la Pryme Diary (1869) 11 No one scarce believes that she [the queen] is realy with barn. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 276 Bearn, Barn, a Son, or Off⁓spring (a Word common with the Scotch, and our North-Countreymen). 1864Tennyson North. Farmer 6 Bessy Marris's barne! tha knaws she laäid it to meä.
γ1513–75Diurn. Occurr. (1833) 67 Efter them wes ane cart with certane bairnes. 1549Compl. Scot. xv. 123 It is fors to me & vyf and bayrns to drynk vattir. a1605Montgomerie Poems (1821) 18 Burnt bairn with fyre the danger dreidis. a1626Beaum. & Fl. Love's Cure iii. i, Has he not well provided for the bairn? 1703Penn in Pa. Hist. Mem. IX. 241, I wish..I had it for one of my poor bairns. 1714Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 527, I wish I could return your compliments as to my wife and bairns. 1857H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets x. II. 25 That deep dark-eyed Scottish bairn was Robert Burns. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. vi. 483 Harthacnut too..was at least a kingly bairn.
Comb. (all north. dial.) bairn-dole, child's portion; bairn-like a., child-like, adv. in child-like manner; † bairn-part, child's portion; bairn(s)-bed, womb; † barn-site, anxiety about children; bairn's-play, child's play; bairn's-maid, -woman, nurse-maid, nurse.
1858Trench Parables xxiv. (1877) 393 The portion of goods that falleth to me; his ‘*bairndole,’ as they would call it in Yorkshire.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xx. 111 That suld noucht han been done *barnelike.
1533Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) 112 That my sonne and..my dowghter have their *barne partes of my goodes.
1549Compl. Scot. 67 Ane vomans *bayrnis bed [printed hed].
1863Provinc. Danby s.v., She's got a swelling on the *bairn bed. a1300Cursor M. 11625 Ne haf yee for me na barn-site.
1863Reader 8 Apr. 386 Who was *bairn's-maid to a daughter of the great philosopher.
1637Rutherford Lett. 88 (1862) I. 226 To make it a matter of *bairn's play.
1823Galt Entail I. i. 2 Who, in her youth, was *bairnswoman to his son.
Hence (north. dial.) ˈbairnie, little child; ˈbairnish a., childish; ˈbairnishness. |