See biernan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "c. 900, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans\nMan ġeseah swelċe sē heofon burne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "The fires fell to the earth like a flaming torch, and the whole field burned.",
"text": "translation of \"Alexander the Great's Letter to Aristotle\"\nÞā fȳr fēollon on þā eorðan swelċe biernende þæċele, and eall sē feld barn.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "He was filled with anger, and commanded the oven to be heated very intensely, and commanded the youths to be bound hands and feet, and cast into the burning oven.",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of the Lord\"\nHé wearð ða afylled mid graman, and hét onǽlén þone ófen swiðe ðearle, and hét gebindan ða cnihtas handum and fotum, and awurpan into ðam byrnendum ófne.",
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"text": "Hēr forþfērde Ēadward cyning, and Hereweald eorl fēng tō þām rīċe and hēold hit fēowertiġ wucena and ǣnne dæġ, and hēr cōm Willelm and ġewann Engla land, and hēr on þissum ġēare barn Cristes ċiriċe, and hēr ætīewde comēta þȳ nigontēoðan dæġe ēastermōnaþes.\nThis year, King Edward died • Harold Godwinson took the throne and held it for 281 days • William the Conqueror came and conquered England • Canterbury Cathedral burned down • a comet appeared on April 19th.",
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"word": "byrnan"
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"word": "birnan"
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈbi͜yr.nɑn/"
},
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"ipa": "[ˈbi͜yrˠ.nɑn]"
}
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"english": "The fires fell to the earth like a flaming torch, and the whole field burned.",
"text": "translation of \"Alexander the Great's Letter to Aristotle\"\nÞā fȳr fēollon on þā eorðan swelċe biernende þæċele, and eall sē feld barn.",
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"english": "He was filled with anger, and commanded the oven to be heated very intensely, and commanded the youths to be bound hands and feet, and cast into the burning oven.",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of the Lord\"\nHé wearð ða afylled mid graman, and hét onǽlén þone ófen swiðe ðearle, and hét gebindan ða cnihtas handum and fotum, and awurpan into ðam byrnendum ófne.",
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"text": "Hēr forþfērde Ēadward cyning, and Hereweald eorl fēng tō þām rīċe and hēold hit fēowertiġ wucena and ǣnne dæġ, and hēr cōm Willelm and ġewann Engla land, and hēr on þissum ġēare barn Cristes ċiriċe, and hēr ætīewde comēta þȳ nigontēoðan dæġe ēastermōnaþes.\nThis year, King Edward died • Harold Godwinson took the throne and held it for 281 days • William the Conqueror came and conquered England • Canterbury Cathedral burned down • a comet appeared on April 19th.",
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"ipa": "/ˈbi͜yr.nɑn/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈbi͜yrˠ.nɑn]"
}
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "byrnan"
},
{
"word": "birnan"
},
{
"word": "beornan"
}
],
"word": "biernan"
}
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