bern

From Old English bearn, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”). Equivalent to bere +‎ -ern.

• barn, baryn, bærn, berne

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛrn/, /ˈbɛːrn/

bern (plural bernes)

1. barn, farm building, granary
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Matheu 3:12, page 2r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     whos wynewing cloþ is in his hond .· ⁊ he ſchal fulli clenſe his coꝛn flooꝛ / and he ſchal gadere his wheete in to his berne .· but þe chaf he ſchal bꝛenne wiþ fier þat mai not be quenchid

     His winnowing fan is in his hand; he'll fully clean his threshing-floor, he'll gather up his wheat into his barn, and he'll burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

• English: barn
• Scots: bern
• Yola: barrn

• “bē̆rn, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-22.

Inherited from Old English beorn; probably from Proto-Germanic *bernuz.

• barn, beorn, beren, berin, berne, beryn, biern, birn, buirn, burn, burne, byrne

• IPA^(key): /beːrn/, /bɛrn/
• (early) IPA^(key): /bøːrn/

bern (plural bernes)

1. A man or human.
2. A knight, soldier or warrior.
3. A lord or noble.

This noun was frequently conflated with baroun in later Middle English.

• “bē̆rn, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-16.

bern

1. Alternative form of barn (“child”)

bern

1. Alternative form of beren

bern

1. Alternative form of bernen

From Middle English bern, from Old English bereærn.

bern (plural berns)

1. barn

From Old Frisian bern, barn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn.

• IPA^(key): /bɛːn/, /bɛn/

bern n (plural bern, diminutive berntsje)

1. child, children

• berneftich
• bernsbern

• “bern (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011