stepbairn

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stepchild. Scotland,UK,dialectal

词形变化

stepbairns plural stepbarn alternative,Northern-England

词源

From Middle English stepbarn (“orphan”), from Old English stēopbearn (“orphan”), from Proto-West Germanic *steupabarn, from Proto-Germanic *steupabarną (“stepchild”), equivalent to step- + bairn. Cognate with Old High German stiofbarn (“stepchild”), Norwegian stebarn (“stepchild”) Danish stedbarn (“stepchild”), Swedish styvbarn (“stepchild”), Icelandic stjúpbarn (“stepchild”).
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