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See also: Born, börn, and børn

English

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Etymology 1

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.
Proto-Germanic *buranaz
Proto-West Germanic *boran
Old English boren, ġeboren
Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne
English born

    From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“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

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    born

    1. past participle of bear; given birth to.
      Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.
      Born in 1937, I spent my early childhood in Spain.
      a Canadian-born singer-songwriter
    2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
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    • Jamaican Creole: baan
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    Adjective

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    born (not comparable)

    1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
      In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.
      a born leader
      • 1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “Part II”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC, page 61:
        I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.
      • 1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major:
        I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.
      • 1965 October 1, Frank Herbert, “Book I: Dune”, in Dune, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Book Company; [Toronto], Ont.: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 108:
        “Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”
        "It . . . seemed the right way."
        "That it most certainly is."
        And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."
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    Etymology 2

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    Dialectal variant of burn.

    Noun

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    born (plural borns)

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

    Verb

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

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

    Further reading

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    • Frank Graham, editor (1987), “BORN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
    • Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “born”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[1], archived from the original on 5 September 2024.

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    Noun

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    born f (plural bornen, no diminutive)

    1. (dialectal) obsolete form of bron

    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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    born n

    1. indefinite plural of barn

    Old English

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    born

    1. first/third-person singular preterite of beirnan
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