borinn - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Old Norse borinn (“born”), from Proto-Germanic *buranaz. Cognate with Faroese borin.

borinn (not comparable)

1. born
   • Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Icelandic, English)

     Hver maður er borinn frjáls og jafn öðrum að virðingu og réttindum. Menn eru gæddir vitsmunum og samvizku, og ber þeim að breyta bróðurlega hverjum við annan.

     All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

2. carried

• aðalborinn
• borinn og barnfæddur (“born and bred”)

From Proto-Germanic *buranaz (“born”), past participle of *beraną (“to bear”).

borinn

1. past participle of bera
2. born

• aðalborinn (“noble, of noble birth”)
• óðalborinn
• óðalsborinn

• Icelandic: borinn
• Faroese: borin
• Norwegian Nynorsk: boren
• Norwegian Bokmål: båren
• Old Swedish: borin
  • Swedish: boren