"bearn" meaning in Old English

See bearn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bæ͜ɑrn/, [bæ͜ɑrˠn]
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *barną. Cognate with Old Frisian bern, Old Saxon barn, Old Dutch *barn, Old High German barn, Old Norse barn, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn). Related to beran. Etymology templates: {{root|ang|ine-pro|*bʰer-}}, {{dercat|ang|gmw-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*barną}} Proto-Germanic *barną, {{cog|ofs|bern}} Old Frisian bern, {{cog|osx|barn}} Old Saxon barn, {{cog|odt|*barn}} Old Dutch *barn, {{cog|goh|barn}} Old High German barn, {{cog|non|barn}} Old Norse barn, {{cog|got|𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽}} Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn), {{m|ang|beran}} beran Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=n|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} bearn n, {{ang-noun|n}} bearn n Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-n|bearn}}, {{ang-decl-noun|bearn|bearn|bearn|bearn|bearnes|bearna|bearne|bearnum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: strong [table-tags], bearn [nominative, singular], bearn [nominative, plural], bearn [accusative, singular], bearn [accusative, plural], bearnes [genitive, singular], bearna [genitive, plural], bearne [dative, singular], bearnum [dative, plural]
  1. child Tags: neuter Categories (topical): Family members, Male family members
    Sense id: en-bearn-ang-noun-3cnmaRlC Disambiguation of Family members: 37 37 5 21 Disambiguation of Male family members: 36 36 6 22
  2. baby Tags: neuter Categories (topical): Family members, Male family members
    Sense id: en-bearn-ang-noun-o8o47w6F Disambiguation of Family members: 37 37 5 21 Disambiguation of Male family members: 36 36 6 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bearnlufu, bearnlēas, bearntēam, bearnēacen, bearnġestrēon, cynebearn, frumbearn, fōstorbearn, stēopbearn, wūscbearn
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: Contraction of bereern, bereærn (literally “barley-place”), equivalent to bere + ærn. Etymology templates: {{m|ang|bereern}} bereern, {{m|ang|bereærn|lit=barley-place}} bereærn (literally “barley-place”), {{af|ang|bere|ærn}} bere + ærn Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=n|g2=|g3=|head=bearn|sort=}} bearn n, {{ang-noun|n|head=bearn}} bearn n Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-n|bearn}}, {{ang-decl-noun|bearn|bearn|bearn|bearn|bearnes|bearna|bearne|bearnum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: strong [table-tags], bearn [nominative, singular], bearn [nominative, plural], bearn [accusative, singular], bearn [accusative, plural], bearnes [genitive, singular], bearna [genitive, plural], bearne [dative, singular], bearnum [dative, plural]
  1. a place to store barley Tags: neuter Synonyms: bern
    Sense id: en-bearn-ang-noun-vT4DoW2y
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /bæ͜ɑrn/, [bæ͜ɑrˠn]
Etymology: Inflections. Head templates: {{head|ang|verb form}} bearn
  1. first/third-person singular preterite of beirnan Tags: first-person, form-of, preterite, singular, third-person Form of: beirnan Categories (topical): Family members, Male family members
    Sense id: en-bearn-ang-verb-u7~VTNtu Disambiguation of Family members: 37 37 5 21 Disambiguation of Male family members: 36 36 6 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bearnlufu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bearnlēas"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bearntēam"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bearnēacen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bearnġestrēon"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cynebearn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "frumbearn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fōstorbearn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "stēopbearn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wūscbearn"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
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          },
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          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: barn, bern, bearn, bærn, barne, berne, baren\nEnglish: barn (obsolete, dialectal)\nGeordie English: bairn\nScots: bairn\n→ English: bairn\nYola: barrn"
    }
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      },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn)",
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      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-n",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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        "nominative",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearnes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearnum",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "plural"
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        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "g3": "",
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        "sort": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "n"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "bearn",
        "3": "bearn",
        "4": "bearn",
        "5": "bearnes",
        "6": "bearna",
        "7": "bearne",
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        "title": "",
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 37 5 21",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Family members",
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            "People",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "36 36 6 22",
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            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
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            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
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            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
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            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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        {
          "english": "It is very pleasant to have a wife and children.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nSwīðe wynsum hit biþ þæt man wīf hæbbe and bearn.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "They were together for twenty years before they had a child.",
          "text": "late 9th century, Old English Martyrology\nHīe wǣron twēntiġ ġēara samod ǣr þon þe hīe bearn hæfdon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "O children, now yet I am little time with you. You seek me; and as I told the Jews, You cannot go to there which I go; and now I tell you.",
          "roman": "Lā bearn, nū gȳt ic eom ġehwǣde tīd mid ēow. Ġē mē sēceað; and swā ic þām Iudeon sǣde, Ġē ne magon faran þyder þe ic fare; and nū ic ēow secge.",
          "text": "c. 990, Wessex Gospels, \"Gospel of Saint John\", chapter 13, verse 33",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "child"
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          "child"
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      ]
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            "People",
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
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      "links": [
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          "baby",
          "baby"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bæ͜ɑrn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[bæ͜ɑrˠn]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bearn"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Inflections.",
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        "1": "ang",
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      },
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  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
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      "ipa": "/bæ͜ɑrn/"
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      "ipa": "[bæ͜ɑrˠn]"
    }
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          "name": "desctree"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
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        "singular"
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        "4": "",
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        "a place to store barley"
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    "Old English nouns",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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      "word": "bearnlufu"
    },
    {
      "word": "bearnlēas"
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    {
      "word": "bearntēam"
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    {
      "word": "bearnēacen"
    },
    {
      "word": "bearnġestrēon"
    },
    {
      "word": "cynebearn"
    },
    {
      "word": "frumbearn"
    },
    {
      "word": "fōstorbearn"
    },
    {
      "word": "stēopbearn"
    },
    {
      "word": "wūscbearn"
    }
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          "name": "desctree"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*barną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *barną",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ofs",
        "2": "bern"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Frisian bern",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osx",
        "2": "barn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon barn",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "odt",
        "2": "*barn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Dutch *barn",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "barn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German barn",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "barn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse barn",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "beran"
      },
      "expansion": "beran",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *barną. Cognate with Old Frisian bern, Old Saxon barn, Old Dutch *barn, Old High German barn, Old Norse barn, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn). Related to beran.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearnes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearnum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bearn n",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
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  ],
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      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-n"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "4": "bearn",
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        "title": "",
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      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "It is very pleasant to have a wife and children.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nSwīðe wynsum hit biþ þæt man wīf hæbbe and bearn.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "They were together for twenty years before they had a child.",
          "text": "late 9th century, Old English Martyrology\nHīe wǣron twēntiġ ġēara samod ǣr þon þe hīe bearn hæfdon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "O children, now yet I am little time with you. You seek me; and as I told the Jews, You cannot go to there which I go; and now I tell you.",
          "roman": "Lā bearn, nū gȳt ic eom ġehwǣde tīd mid ēow. Ġē mē sēceað; and swā ic þām Iudeon sǣde, Ġē ne magon faran þyder þe ic fare; and nū ic ēow secge.",
          "text": "c. 990, Wessex Gospels, \"Gospel of Saint John\", chapter 13, verse 33",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "child"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "baby"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baby",
          "baby"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bæ͜ɑrn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[bæ͜ɑrˠn]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bearn"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English neuter a-stem nouns",
    "Old English neuter nouns",
    "Old English non-lemma forms",
    "Old English nouns",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English terms with redundant head parameter",
    "Old English verb forms",
    "ang:Family members",
    "ang:Male family members"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Inflections.",
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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      },
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      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "beirnan"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "first/third-person singular preterite of beirnan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beirnan",
          "beirnan#Old English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "form-of",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/bæ͜ɑrn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[bæ͜ɑrˠn]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bearn"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Old English compound terms",
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English neuter a-stem nouns",
    "Old English neuter nouns",
    "Old English nouns",
    "Old English terms with redundant head parameter",
    "ang:Family members",
    "ang:Male family members"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
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          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: bern, barn, baryn, bærn, berne\nEnglish: barn\nScots: bern\nYola: barrn",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: bern, barn, baryn, bærn, berne\nEnglish: barn\nScots: bern\nYola: barrn"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "bereern"
      },
      "expansion": "bereern",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "bereærn",
        "lit": "barley-place"
      },
      "expansion": "bereærn (literally “barley-place”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "bere",
        "3": "ærn"
      },
      "expansion": "bere + ærn",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Contraction of bereern, bereærn (literally “barley-place”), equivalent to bere + ærn.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearnes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bearnum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
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        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bearn n",
      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "head": "bearn"
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      "args": {
        "1": "bearn"
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      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-n"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "bearn",
        "3": "bearn",
        "4": "bearn",
        "5": "bearnes",
        "6": "bearna",
        "7": "bearne",
        "8": "bearnum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a place to store barley"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ],
        [
          "barley",
          "barley"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bern"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bearn"
}

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