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Old English
Etymology
From or cognate with Old Norse barði.
Pronunciation
Noun
barþ m
- a light vessel used for sailing or rowing
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “barþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Sara M. Pons-Sanz (2013) The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandanavian Linguistic Contact on Old English, Turhout, Belgium: Brepolis Publishers