different between bairn vs tairn
bairn
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)
- (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)
- 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)
- to make pregnant
References
- “bairn” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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tairn
English
Noun
tairn (plural tairns)
- (Northern England) Alternative form of tarn.
Anagrams
- Artin, Tarin, Tiran, Train, Trina, atrin, intra-, riant, tarin, train
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