yborn

yborn

English

Etymology

    From y- + born.

    Verb

    yborn

    1. (obsolete) past participle of bear
      • a. 1536, A Little Child There is Yborn, a carol quoted in 1915, Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols, 1400-1700, page 42:
        A Little Child There is Yborn Before 1536.
        Gloria Tibi, Domine, / Qui natus es de virgine! / A little child there is yborn, / Out of Jesse's stock ycorn [chosen], / To save all us that were forlorn.
      • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. [], part II (books IV–VI), London: [] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 128:
        Yet did this Truſtie ſquire with proud diſdaine / For his friends ſake her offred fauours ſcorne, / And ſhe her ſelfe her ſyre, of whom ſhe was yborne.

    Anagrams

    Middle English

    Etymology

    From Old English ġeboren.

    Verb

    yborn

    1. past participle of bear