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English
Etymology
y- + born
Verb
yborn
- (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 , / 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
- past participle of bear