Dictionary:bånn

Nynorn

Husfolk(NP) Family
[missing] grandparents abbi og amma grandfather and grandmother
foreldrar parents fader og moder father and mother påbi og mor dad and mum
bånn children son og dotter son and daughter bruder (brui) og syster brother and sister
bånnabånn grandchildren

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Shetland use

An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (1928–1932)

Jakobsen, Jakob

*bonn [bȯᶇ], sb., child; only preserved in some old rigmaroles: a) a cradle-song from N.Roe, that begins: Baw waw bonna [bā wā bȯᶇa], lullaby baby! -a in bonna is the def. art. (barn-it); L.Sc. baw, vb., to lull, lull asleep (bawaw, sb., is a jocular name for a child); b) an obs. cradle-song from Uⁿ.: Bis bis bio, bonn(e) vil ikke tio [bɩs b. biꞏə, bȯᶇ(ə) vɩl ɩkə tiꞏə], etc., lullaby! the child will not hush, etc.; c) a verse from Fe., used in an old troll-tale (fairy tale): Geng hame to Fivla [fɩvla] and tell Divla [dɩvla] at de honnins [hȯᶇɩns] wis lopen [lopən] in a “tuilly” [tøli] and brunt [‘burnt’] de bonnins [bȯᶇɩns] = Go home to Fivla and tell Divla (Tivla) that the dogs were fighting and had “burnt the children”, i.e. had killed the children by pushing them into the fire on the hearth. bonnins is the def. form in pl. (bǫrnin) with added Eng. pl. “s.” From Foula come the forms bjadna, bjadni: *barn-it; see bjadna. bonnis also found in two compds.: bonnhoga, bonsvamm. O.N. barn, n., child; No. bann, badn, baan, pl.: bonn, bodn, boon. Mod. Shetl. bairn, from L.Sc.

*bjadna [bjadna], *bjadni [bjadni], sb., child; mader (food) to de b. Fo. Prop. def. form: *barnit. dadna for *badna in “jarta dadna”, is still used occas. as an endearing term or when speaking kindly: “child of my heart”. Fo. Cf. bonn- in bonna, bonnins, bonnhoga, bonsvamm.

Pronunciation

• (Mainland) IPA: /boinnj/
• (Westside/Foula) IPA: /bjadn/

Alternate Forms

Dialectal orthographies

• Mainland: bå(i)nnj
• Westside/Foula: bjarn

Noun

bånn

1. child

Inflection

nn.s.	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bånn	bånnið	bånn	bånnen
Accusative	bånn	bånnið	bånn	bånnen
Dative	bånni	bånnenu	bånnon	bånnonon
Genitive	bånn	bånnsens	bånna	bånnana

Synonyms

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