bairn

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.

noun

1. (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.
   She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
   Bobby Shaftoe's getten a bairn For to dandle in his arm; In his arm and on his knee, Bobby Shaftoe loves me. 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 87

verb

1. (transitive, Scotland) To make pregnant.
   Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy. 1992, Robin Jenkins, Happy for the Child, page 108