different between born vs unbirth

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), bawn (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ?eboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *giboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beran? (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear +? -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).

Verb

born

1. past participle of bear; given birth to.

2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
   • 1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I

     In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

Translations

Adjective

born (not comparable)

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• borne
• né, née

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Verb

born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams

• Brno, Norb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

born f (plural bornen)

1. (dialectal) Obsolete form of bron.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• barn

Noun

born n

1. indefinite plural of barn

English

Etymology

un- +? birth

Noun

unbirth (uncountable)

1. The absence of birth; failure to be born.
   • 1993, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's Literary Annual, 1993

     His death is a kind of unbirth, and the imagery that surrounds it is physical and sexual.
2. A paraphilia in which the individual desires to be drawn back through the vagina into the womb.
   • 2001, "Hyndis Kogler", FUR:UB #10(last page, overstuffed belly) (on Internet newsgroup fur.artwork.erotica)

     Maybe a bunch of bi incest, [summoning a] muscular, two-cocked demon of some sort, unbirth, and then another demon shows up and mounts the second demon with the female drow in hir belly, and also takes the drow in the same stroke inside her.

   • 2005, "Lord Flame Stryke", Re: Curious (on newsgroup alt.fan.dragons)

     Me, I like vore and unbirth. But then, I'm strange […]