"child" (of any age), Old English bearn "child, son, descendant," probably related to beran ("to bear, carry, give birth;" see bear (v.)). Originally not chiefly Scottish, but felt as such from c. 1700. This was the English form of the original Germanic word for "child" (see child). Dutch, Old High German kind, German Kind are from a prehistoric *gen-to-m "born," from the same root as Latin gignere. Middle English had bairn-team "brood of children."
双语例句
1. He's a lovely bairn.
他是个可爱的孩子。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Give bairn his will, and a whelp his fill , and none of these two will thrive.
