Noun: bairn
| Singular | bairn |
| Plural | bairns |
Sample Sentences
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She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
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They say that a shag is good for an unborn child, they get the circulation of blood, or some shite. The least ah kin dae is take an interest in the bairn’s welfare. [1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:]
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Bobby Shaftoe's getten a bairn
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For to dandle in his arm;
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In his arm and on his knee,
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Bobby Shaftoe loves me. [1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 87:]
Nouns inflected like bairn
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
bern', Old English Nouns '
bearn'.
Verbs referencing "bairn"
Danish Nouns
barn, Latvian Nouns
bērns.