barn
nafnorðhvorugkyn
börn, [ barn; parn; bearn; and bairn; bera and parère]:—a bairn, child, baby. This word, which in olden time was common to all the idioms, was lost in Germany as early as the 13th century (Grimm, ); in the South of England it went out of use at an early time, and was replaced by ‘child;’ even the Ormulum uses barn only four times, else always ‘child.’ In bairu is still a household word, and in popular Scottish writers, Burns, Walter Scott, In the whole of Scandinavia it is in full and exclusive use; the ‘kind’ is in entirely unknown in this sense, v. the funny story Ísl. Þjóð. ii. 535; (‘kind’ in common means a sheep.) In Danish barn is the only word which, like the , changes the radical vowel in into ö (börn). Proverbs referring to barn; barnið vex en brókin ekki; þetta verðr aldri barn í brók; bráð er barnslundin (barnæskan); nema börn hvað á bæ er títt; allir hafa börnin verið; því læra börnin málið að það er fyrir þeim hatt; tvisvar verðr gamall maðrinn barn; bragð er at þá barnið finnr; snemma taka börn til meina; Guð gefr björg með barni, Eggert () 1. 14; sex born, dætr þrjár ok þrjá sonu, 30, Ísl. ii. 198, 36; eiga þrjá sonu barna, xi. 43; og svíkjast um að eiga börn, Eggert () 1. 14; vera með barni, to be with child, ii. 212, i. 57, 68, Ísl. ii. 197; fara með barni, to go with child, 130; frá blautu barni, from a child, iii. 155; unni honum hvert barn, every child, every living creature, loved him, i. 17; hvert mannsbarn, every man: (rare), offspring, 10: barn, barnið gott, börn, barnið mitt (τέκνον, τέκνα) is with many a favourite term of endearment in talking with another. Látum líða og bíða, börn, Pál Vid. in a popular ditty: eptirlætisbarn, a pet, spoilt child; olbogabarn, a hard-treated child; óskabarn, a child of adoption; sveinbarn, a boy; meybarn, a girl; ungbarn, a baby.
:
- barnabörn,
- barnaeign,
- barnafæri,
- barnagaman,
- barnakarl,
- barnakensla,
- barnaleikr,
- barnamessa,
- barnadagr,
- barnamold,
- barnamosi,
- barnaskap,
- barnaspil,
- barnavipr,
- barnaþáttr,
- barnsaldr,
- barnsbein,
- barnsfarir,
- barnsfull,
- barnsfylgja,
- barnsgrátr,
- barnshafandi,
- barnshúfa,
- barnslík,
- barnsmál,
- barnsskírsl,
- barnssótt,
- barnsútkast,
- barnsverk.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- Ulf.Ulfilas.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Scot.Scottish.
- North. E.Northern English.
- cp.compare.
- Lat.Latin.
- Teut.Teutonic.
- s. v.sub voce.
- freq.frequent, frequently.
- etc.et cetera.
- Germ.German.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- i. e.id est.
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Bb.Búnaðar-bálkr.
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Niðrst.Niðrstigningar saga. (F. III.)