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bornt en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Apparently born + -t; compare kilt (“killed”).

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past, qualifier:Geordie and some other dialects) simple past and past participle of born
    form of born
    • they might as well not have been bornt at all. […] Maybe we all should’ve bornt ourselves in another time, another place. 2017 October 3, Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Akashic Books, →ISBN:
    • "Oughtta been bornt sooner," the little runt piped up. 1983 September 15, Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 32:

bornt en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of burnt.
    alt of burnt
    • Next to that went Israell forth the Madianits to kyll / And slue ye males & bornt ther towns and led the rest at wyll. 1551, Samuel, William (fl. 1551-1569), The abridgemente of goddes statutes in myter
    • accept this bornt sacrifcie O heauenly Father, 1559, John Bradford, The complaynt of veritie:
    • And how that Warres bryngs wo and waest, and leaues a kyngdom baer. The people spoyld, the howsis bornt, the freends and neighbour slayn: 1575, Thomas Churchyard, The firste parte of Churchyardes chippes contayning twelue seuerall labours: