"burn" meaning in Scots

See burn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: burns [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle Scots burn, burne, from Early Scots burn, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”). Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”). Etymology templates: {{root|sco|ine-pro|*bʰrewh₁-}}, {{dercat|sco|gmw-pro|gem-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|sco|gmw-msc|burn|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle Scots burn, {{inh+|sco|gmw-msc|burn}} Inherited from Middle Scots burn, {{inh|sco|enm-esc|burn}} Early Scots burn, {{inh|sco|ang|burne}} Old English burne, {{cog|fy|boarne}} West Frisian boarne, {{cog|nl|bron}} Dutch bron, {{cog|de|Brunnen}} German Brunnen, {{cog|sq|burim||spring, fountain}} Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), {{cog|grc|φρέαρ||well, reservoir}} Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), {{cog|xcl|աղբիւր||fount}} Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”) Head templates: {{head|sco|noun|||plural|burns|||||cat2=|cat3=|checkredlinks=1|head=}} burn (plural burns), {{sco-noun}} burn (plural burns)
  1. A small river or large stream
    Sense id: en-burn-sco-noun-ibqfCyjS Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Scots entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Scots dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-11 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.