bairn

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I needna tell ye I christened him Alick, and the bairn has been my joy and comfort ever since God gifted me with him.

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  1. noun Scots A child.

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  • "And because this bairn will be her first, my wife thinks her presence will make the ordeal easier for her Lady Kincaid is known as a healer here," Quinlan told her. —  Garwood, Julie - The Wedding
  • "It is something anyone would have done for their bairn or their family."
  • And she carried something tenderly in her arms, as a bairn is carried when it is brought forward for the baptizing My father!" —  Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
  • There's the ane bairn, and another coming, God bless him Weel, Andy'd learned nothing he hadn't been told a million times by his parents and his friends. —  Between You and Me
  • Oh, my bairn--my wean Aye, but he shall not!" —  Between You and Me
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English barn, from Old English bearn; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Scots form of the reg. English barn (now only dial.), from Middle English barn, bern, from Anglo-Saxon bearn (= Old Saxon barn = OFries. barn = Old Dutch baren = Old High German Middle High German barn = Icelandic Swedish Danish barn = Gothic (Moesogothic) barn), a child, from beran, English bear.
 

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