yborn

English

Etymology

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

• Bryon, Byron, Norby, Robyn, brony

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ġeboren.

Verb

yborn

1. past participle of bear