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71bear — [OE] The two English words bear ‘carry’ and bear the animal come from completely different sources. The verb, Old English beran, goes back via Germanic *ber to Indo European *bher , which already contained the two central meaning elements that… …
72birth — [12] Old English had a word gebyrd ‘birth’ which survived until the end of the 13th century as birde, but it was quite distinct from (though related to) modern English birth, which was borrowed from Old Norse byrth. This came from the same… …
73burden — There are two distinct words burden in English. By far the older, ‘load’, comes from Old English byrthen. Like bear, birth, bairn, bier, barrow, and berth it goes back ultimately to an Indo European base *bher , which signified both ‘carry’ and… …
74Annand, James King — (1908 1993) When Annand graduated from Edinburgh University, he became a schoolteacher and poet, translating work from German and medieval Latin into Scots. He was a supporter of the Scots Language Society and a life long champion of the Scots …
75bear — [OE] The two English words bear ‘carry’ and bear the animal come from completely different sources. The verb, Old English beran, goes back via Germanic *ber to Indo European *bher , which already contained the two central meaning elements that… …
76birth — [12] Old English had a word gebyrd ‘birth’ which survived until the end of the 13th century as birde, but it was quite distinct from (though related to) modern English birth, which was borrowed from Old Norse byrth. This came from the same… …
77burden — There are two distinct words burden in English. By far the older, ‘load’, comes from Old English byrthen. Like bear, birth, bairn, bier, barrow, and berth it goes back ultimately to an Indo European base *bher , which signified both ‘carry’ and… …
78Barn — Barn, n. A child. See {Bairn}. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …
79Bearn — Bearn, n. See {Bairn}. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …
80Northumberland — For other places with this name, see Northumberland (disambiguation). Northumberland …
