different between barn vs bawn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bärn, IPA^(key): /b??n/
  • (General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): [ba?n]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [b??n]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [b??n]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [b??n]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [b??n]
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English bern, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *ra?n, from Proto-Germanic *razn? (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h?rh??-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erh?- (“to rest”).

More at rest and barley.

For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.

Noun

barn (plural barns)

1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10^?28 square metres.
3. (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.

Derived terms

See also

• Besses o' th' Barn

Translations

Verb

barn (third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)

1. (transitive) To lay up in a barn.

Etymology 2

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate in Frisian: bern (child/children).

Noun

barn (plural barns)

1. (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.

Synonyms

• (child): bairn

Translations

References

• barn at OneLook Dictionary Search
• barn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Bran, NRAB, bran

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *barnati (“proclaim”). Cognate with Cornish barna.

Verb

barn

1. (transitive) to judge

Inflection

Conjugation

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish, Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn?. Compare English bairn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b???n]

Noun

barn n (singular definite barnet, plural indefinite børn)

1. child (immature human)

   Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.

   This is not a fitting place for children.

2. child (human offspring)

   Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.

   My children have all moved out.

Usage notes

In compounds: barn-, barne-, barns- or børne-.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?, the passive participle of *beran?; cognate with Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?patn]
• Rhymes: -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)

1. child

Declension

French

Noun

barn m (plural barns)

1. (physics) barn (unit)

Gothic

Romanization

barn

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?partn?], IPA^(key): [?patn?] (colloquial), IPA^(key): [?parn] (Southeast dialect)
• Rhymes: -artn, -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)

1. child

Declension

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English barn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?barn/

Noun

barn m (invariable)

1. (nuclear physics) barn (unit of surface area)

References

• barn in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Alternative forms

• bern, bearn, bærn, barne, berne, baren

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barn/, /ba?rn/, /b?rn/

Noun

barn (plural barnes or barnen)

2. A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
3. A child, youth, or baby
4. A person; a member of humanity
5. A younger soldier or fighter

Related terms

• barneschen
• barnhede
• barnles
• barntem
• stepbarn

Descendants

• Scots: bairn
  • ? English: bairn
• English: barn (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Northumbrian: bairn

References

• “b??rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

From Old English bereærn.

Noun

barn

2. Alternative form of bern (“barn”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn? (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/

Noun

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn, definite plural barna or barnene)

1. a child

Derived terms

References

• “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn? (“child”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *b?er- (“to bear, carry”). The plural form born is from the Old Norse u-umlauted form b?rn. This um-laut can also be seen in Icelandic börn and Danish and Faroese børn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??rn/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn or born, definite plural barna or borna)

1. a child

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• bera (“to bear, carry”, verb)

References

• “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)

1. child

Descendants

• Danish: barn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *barn?, the passive participle of *beran?; cognate with Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-.

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural b?rn)

1. child

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: barn
• Faroese: barn
• Norwegian Bokmål: barn
• Old Swedish: barn
  • Swedish: barn
• Old Danish: barn
  • Danish: barn
• Gutnish: ban

References

• barn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?, whence also Old English bearn, Old High German barn, Swedish barn.

Noun

barn n

1. child

Declension

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Noun

barn n

1. child

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: barn

Polish

Noun

barn m inan

1. barn (unit)

Declension

Further reading

• barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bern?lis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??rn/, [b???]

Noun

barn n

1. a child (a young person)
2. (someone's) child, offspring (a son or daughter)
3. a descendant (e.g. children of Abraham)
4. a follower (e.g. God's children)
5. (someone's) creation, invention
6. (uncountable) barn; a unit of area in nuclear physics

Declension

Synonyms

• unge

Related terms

See also

• pojke
• flicka

References

• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *barnati from Proto-Indo-European *g?erH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barn/

Noun

barn f (plural barnau)

1. opinion, view
2. judgement, sentence

Derived terms

• barnu (“to adjudge; to pass sentence”)

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

From Irish bábhún (“walled enclosure”).

Noun

bawn (plural bawns)

1. A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.

   • But these round hills and square bawnes, which you see so strongly trenched and throwne up

   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, Thomas Sheridan (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), 1812, The British Classics, Volume 45: The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI, page 163:

     The Grand Question Debated

     Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house ? 1729

     This Hamilton's bawn, while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider.

   • 1892, Joseph Jacobs (editor), Jack and His Master, Celtic Fairy Tales:

     When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?

2. A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.
   • 2004, Colm J. Donnelly, Passage or Barrier? Communication between Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick, in Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002, page 57:

     The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”

Etymology 2

Participle

bawn

1. Pronunciation spelling of born.
   • 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny:

     But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.

Anagrams

• WNBA

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bau?n/

Verb

bawn

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod

Synonyms

• byddwn

Mutation