Bairn
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Examples of the term's use include the phrase "Jock Tamson's Bairns" as an idiomatic expression of egalitarian sentiment and the title of the 19th century Geordie folk song "Come Geordie ha'd the bairn." "Baloo Baleerie", a traditional Scottish lullaby, incorporates the term repeatedly, as does "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry", a traditional folk song from Orkney.
Originally a general English word, in modern English restricted to northern England and Scottish from c. 1700. This was the English form of the original Germanic word for "child" (compare child). Dutch, Old High German kind, German Kind are from a prehistoric *gen-to-m "born," from the same root as Latin gignere (see genus and compare kind (n.)). Middle English had bairn-team "brood of children."
The wider sense "young person before the onset of puberty" developed in late Old English. Phrase with child "pregnant" (late 12c.) retains the original sense. The sense extension from "infant" to "child" also is found in French enfant, Latin infans. Meaning "one's own child; offspring of parents" is from late 12c. (the Old English word was bearn; see bairn). Figurative use from late 14c. Most Indo-European languages use the same word for "a child" and "one's child," though there are exceptions (such as Latin liberi/pueri).
A bairn, wee 'un, child ur littlin is a youthie body, a lad or lass. Wean, maistly in ra west, is particularly usit for young yins. While a bairn is defined as bein a body afore tha oncome o puberty, a body afore tha end o puberty, a body unner tha age o majority, ur itherweys. Tha term micht can define a relationship wi a Pawrent ur authority feegur an aw, ur seegnifee group membership in a clan, tribe, ur releegion; ur it can seegnifee bein fell affectit by a specific time, place, ur circumstance, as in "we're aw Jock Tamson's bairns" ur "a bairn o tha Saxties."[1]
One of the fishermen had to give the mother the sorry news. "Stay here in our village with us," said he. "This can be your new home. We have many a fine lad for you to marry. You'll have another bairn before long, no doubt."
One day the lass wandered into a camp of gypsies. "Where is my bairn? Can anyone help me?" The girl looked so forlorn and weary, a mother with three young children took pity on her. She bid the lass to come inside her tent. She washed the feet of the visitor and fed her from her own pot. "Where is my bairn?" was all the girl could say.
"The harp is beyond price," said the lass. "'Tis woven from my own golden hair.There's none like it in the world. There's only one trade of interest to me." The king arched one eyebrow. "My bairn!" she said. "Give me my bairn that was taken by the fairies after I left him in his blankets by the black cliffs. My bairn back, and the harp is yours!"
The king clicked his fingers. Before long, the baby was brought to his side. At once the infant recognized its mother and reached out. The lass gripped the harp tightly, her chin up. She repeated, "Give me the bairn first."
Clutching her baby, the lass turned from the king, quickened out of the fairy mound, and headed to the fisherfolk who had cared for her so tenderly. Overjoyed were they that she had returned to their village - and with her bairn, no less! And that is where the lass and her little one stayed for many happy years.
(4) A peculiar extension of this word is used by fishermen in Orkney to mean the smaller of the two hills in taking their directions [Meeths] at sea. (See Marw.)Ork.1 1933: We'll bring yin [yon] bairn in a line wi' the Brough o' Birsay.
(5) A term of contempt.Mry.2 1933: Jock's naething bit a bairn, a big bullyin' breet.Gall. 1898 A.W. in E.D.D.: Bairn, is used sometimes in a pitying or semi-contemptuous sense, of a weak-minded or childish person.
2. v. To render pregnant.Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 4: God, mebbe Betty, their sister hid gotten hirsel bairned on purpose tae get hersel wed - ye cud unnerstaun yon; even the breets in the park meeved tae yon auld tune.Slg.3 1917: J. M. was bairning S. T.m.Lth. 1993: In the auld days ye wir bairned every ither year whether ye liked it or no. wm.Sc. 1954 Robin Jenkins The Thistle and the Grail (1994) 103: Hadn't he been heaved out of his post in the Sunday school by the young minister? And wasn't Lizzie Anderson spreading the tale she was bairned by him? wm.Sc. 1977 William McIlvanney Laidlaw (1985) 215: 'I've had to ask a lot of questions. Not all the answers tell against that boy. Don't kid yerself! She hated you. And she was right. Feyther? Feyther's more than bairnin' yer wife. Feyther's more than you ever were.' wm.Sc. 1988 Robin Jenkins Just Duffy 73: Has Margaret got herself bairned? By Stephen Telfer? That'd be a laugh. Arg. 1992: He bairned a lassie. Ayr. 1827 Burns ed. Merry Muses 14: I've bairn'd the servants, gilpies both Forbye your titty Leah.Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. 47: Bairn, to get (a woman) with child.
(3) Bairnrhyme, a poem for children.Sc. 1979 Maurice Lindsay Collected Poems 108: Of Skunks and Men (A Bairnrhyme)Sc. 1988 Joy Hendry in Joy Hendry Chapman 53 1: Chapman 53 reopens critical discussion of William Soutar. Soutar the poet has been too much relegated the realm of his own bairnrhymes.Abd. 2000 Sheena Blackhall The Singing Bird 57: Bairn rhymes skip ben a clootie rugThat's aa the colours o the lexicon.
(4) Bairn's-bairn, a grandchild.Bnff.2 1932: Gweed luck ta ye, ma lassie, an' may ye dandle yir bairn's bairns on yir knee.Hdg. 1932 (per Edb.1): Wee Annie is Elspeth's bairn's bairn.
(4) Naebody's bairn, an untidy child (or occasionally adult) who looks uncared for, often an object of pity (Ags., Fif., Edb., Ayr., Dmf., Rxb. 2000s). Sc. 1998 Scotland on Sunday (25 Oct) 9: Musselburgh, with only one win in the past four Saturdays, apparently embarked on mission impossible as rugby's Naebody's Bairns at top-of-the-table Gala. And so it proved. The Borderers went ahead 19-0 after 14 minutes on the way to a 38-3 victory.Edb. 1985: Can ye no wash yer face? Dae ye have tae go aboot like naebody's bairn aw the time?
(5) One man's bairn(e)s, meaning as in (3).Sc. 1706 First Earl of Cromartie in Earls of Cromartie (ed. Fraser 1876) II. 4: Then, whate're parties or persons doe manage and cary it [the Union] on, they have my best wishes . . . and then I hope that wee shall be all one man's bairnes.
This is the incredibly cute Scottish way of identifying children and babies. You don't have a one year old you. You have a "wee bairn." And, spoiler: wee bairn's with wee Scottish accents melt my wee heart. 781b155fdc