Noun: barn
| Sg. | barn |
| Pl. | barnes; barnen |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Hit tidde after on a time · as tellus our bokes / as þis bold barn his beſtes · blybeliche keped[…] (Afterwards, as our books record, it happened one day that / while this brave child was peacefully looking after his animals […]) [c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 6, recto, lines 198-199; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like barn
brest,
cloud,
wight,
wet,
dint,
bord,
bouk,
barn,
helm,
wort,
Etymology
Inherited from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. See: Old English Nouns '
bearn', Old English Nouns '
bearn'.
Verbs referencing "barn"
English Nouns
barn.
Translations