different between bairn vs grandbairn

English

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.

Pronunciation

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /bern/, /b?rn/
• (Northumberland, North Durham, rhotic) IPA^(key): /?b???n/
• (UK, rhotic) IPA^(key): /?b???n/
• (UK, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /?b??n/, /?b??n/
• (US, Canada, Ireland, West Country) IPA^(key): /?b??n/

In some areas (e.g. Bradford), pronounced as IPA^(key): /?ba?n/. See Etymology 2 under barn.(See page 216 in Joseph Wright's A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill).

Noun

bairn (plural bairns)

1. (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:child.

Translations

Derived terms

• bairnie/bairny
• bairnish
• bairnless
• bairnlike
• shy bairns get nowt, shy bairns get noot
• stepbairn

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bairn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• bairn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

References

• “bairn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Barin, Brain, Brian, Rabin, abrin, brain, brian

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, descendant, offspring, issue, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”), both from Proto-Germanic *barn? (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, bring forth”). Cognate with West Frisian bern (“child”), North Frisian baern, born (“child”), Middle High German barn (“child, son, daughter”), Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic barn (“child”), Albanian barrë (“pregnancy, child”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bern/, /b?rn/

Noun

bairn (plural bairns)

1. child

Derived terms

• bairnheid
• bairnie
• grandbairn
• stap-bairn

Descendants

• ? English: bairn

Verb

bairn (third-person singular present bairns, present participle bairnin, past bairnt, past participle bairnt)

1. to make pregnant

References

• “bairn” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

English

Etymology

From grand- +? bairn.

Noun

grandbairn (plural grandbairns)

1. (Tyneside) A grandchild.

Related terms

• bairn (Tyneside)
• grandchild (Standard English)

Scots

Etymology

grand- +? bairn

Noun

grandbairn (plural grandbairns)

1. grandchild