Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To get (someone) pregnant.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA child or baby.
Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.
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