barn
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley.
NounEdit
barn (plural barns)
- (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
- (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
- Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
barn (third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)
- (transitive) To lay up in a barn.
- Shakespeare
- Men […] often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
- Shakespeare
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). More at bairn.
NounEdit
barn (plural barns)
- (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
SynonymsEdit
- (child): bairn
TranslationsEdit
AnagramsEdit
BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
Cognate with Cornish barna.
VerbEdit
barn
- (transitive) to judge
InflectionEdit
ConjugationEdit
| Personal forms | |||||||
| Indicative | Conditional | Imperative | |||||
| Present | Imperfect | Preterite | Future | Present | Imperfect | ||
| 1s | barnan | barnen | barnis | barnin | barnfen | barnjen | - |
| 2s | barnez | barnes | barnjout | barni | barnfes | barnjes | barn |
| 3s | barn | barne | barnas | barno | barnfe | barnje | barnet |
| 1p | barnomp | barnemp | barnjomp | barnimp | barnfemp | barnjemp | barnomp |
| 2p | barnit | barnec'h | barnjoc'h | barnot | barnfec'h | barnjec'h | barnit |
| 3p | barnont | barnent | barnjont | barnint | barnfent | barnjent | barnent |
| 0 | barner | barned | barnjod | barnor | barnfed | barnjed | - |
| Impersonal forms | Mutated forms | ||||||
| Infinitive: barn Present participle: o varn Past participle: barnet (auxiliary verb: kaout) |
Soft mutation after a: a varn- Mixed mutation after e: e varn- Soft mutation after ne/na: ne/na varn- | ||||||
Derived termsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Danish barn, from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
barn n (singular definite barnet, plural indefinite børn)
- child (immature human)
- Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.
- This is not a fitting place for children.
- Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.
- child (human offspring)
- Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.
- My children have all moved out.
- Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.
Usage notesEdit
In compounds: barn-, barne-, barns- or børne-.
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog
FaroeseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of barn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n5 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | barn | barnið | børn | børnini |
| accusative | barn | barnið | børn | børnini |
| dative | barni | barninum | børnum | børnunum |
| genitive | barns | barnsins | barna | barnanna |
FrenchEdit
GothicEdit
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): [ˈpartn], IPA(key): [ˈpatn] (colloquial), IPA(key): [ˈparn] (Southeast dialect)
- Rhymes: -artn
- Rhymes: -atn
NounEdit
barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- smábarn
- brjóstbarn
- undrabarn
- ungabarn
- ungbarn
- barnalegur
- barnalæknir
- brennt barn forðast eldinn
- barnshafandi
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English bearn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
barn (plural barnes or barnen)
- A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
- A child, youth, or baby
- A person; a member of humanity
- A younger soldier or fighter
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bā̆rn (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old English bereærn.
NounEdit
barn
- Alternative form of bern (“barn”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn, definite plural barna or barnene)
- a child
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn or born, definite plural barna or borna)
- a child
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.
NounEdit
barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)
DescendantsEdit
- Danish: barn
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.
NounEdit
barn n (genitive barns, plural bǫrn)
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Icelandic: barn
- Faroese: barn
- Norwegian: barn
- Old Swedish: barn
- Swedish: barn
- Old Danish: barn
- Danish: barn
- Westrobothnian: báðn
- Elfdalian: barn
- Jamtish: báðn
- Gutnish: ban
- Scanian: barn
ReferencesEdit
- barn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old SaxonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *barną, whence also Old English bearn, Old High German barn, Swedish barn.
NounEdit
barn n
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | barn | barn |
| accusative | barn | barn |
| genitive | barnes | barnō |
| dative | barne | barnun |
| instrumental | — | — |
Old SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.
NounEdit
barn n
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Swedish: barn
PolishEdit
NounEdit
barn m inan
- barn (unit)
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bernẽlis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
barn n
- a child (a young person)
- (someone's) child, offspring (a son or daughter)
- a descendant (e.g. children of Abraham)
- a follower (e.g. God's children)
- (someone's) creation, invention
- (uncountable) barn; a unit of area in nuclear physics
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of barn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | barn | barnet | barn | barnen |
| Genitive | barns | barnets | barns | barnens |
SynonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- barn in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.
