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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Arabic جِلْد (jild).
Pronunciation
Noun
cild (definite accusative cildi, plural cildlər)
- binding (spine of a book)
- book volume, book copy
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Middle English
Noun
cild
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of child
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ċild n
- child
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilius, Bishop"
He be-het þæt he wolde and se halga ge-bæd for þæt seoce cyld and him wæs sona bet.- He promised that he would, and the saint prayed for the sick child, and he was instantly better.
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Þā ċildru rīdaþ on heora stafum and maniġfealde plegan plegaþ þǣr hīe hyriaþ ealdum mannum.- The children ride their sticks and play all kinds of games where they imitate adults.
- c. 992, Ælfric, “The Deposition of St. Cuthbert, Bishop”
Sē ēadega Cūðbeorht, þā þā hē wæs eahtawintre ċild, rann swā swā him his nytenlīċe ield tyhte plegende mid his efnealdum.- The blessed Cuthbert, when he was an eight-year-old child, was running around like his innocent age urged him to do and playing with his peers.
- baby
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Luke 2:12
Ġē ġemētaþ ān ċild hræġlum bewunden and on binne āleġd.- You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.
Usage notes
- Ċild and bearn both translate "child," but they bear somewhat different shades of meaning. Bearn refers to a child of someone, and is most often found in possessive phrases such as "his child" and "her child"—like Modern English "son" and "daughter," but gender-neutral. Ċild only occasionally appears in those contexts but is the default word in all others—a gender-neutral term for "boy" or "girl." This difference can be seen in derived compounds such as ċildhād (“childhood”) and bearnlīest (“childlessness”).
Declension
Declension of cild (strong z-stem)
Also often appears as an a-stem:
Declension of cild (strong a-stem)
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