bairn

苏格兰方言，词源同bear, 生育。

bairn

bairn: see bear

bairn (n.)

"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."

1. He's a lovely bairn.

他是个可爱的孩子。

2. Give bairn his will, and a whelp his fill , and none of these two will thrive.

纵容溺爱, 子不成材.