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** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A barn , especially one used for keeping cattle in.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1935 | author=w:T.S. Eliot | title=Murder in the Cathedral | section=Part II
|passage=It was here in the kitchen, in the passage,<br>In the mews in the
harn in the BYRE in the market-place [...]}}
1. * [chapter=7]
2. * 1999 , [Neil Gaiman] , _[Stardust (Gaiman novel)]_ , page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition):
3. *: The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow BYRES and barns.
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**** Synonyms
- [en] , [en]
**** Coordinate terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese: [zh]
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Volapük: [cattle] [vo] , [cows] [vo] , [cows] [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Old English
*** Etymology 1
From [ang] (early [gmw-pro]), from [ang].
**** Pronunciation
- [byre]
**** Noun
[m]
1. child , son , descendant ; young man, youth
***** Declension
[byr]
*** Etymology 2
From [ang].
**** Pronunciation
- [byre]
**** Noun
[m]
1. mound
*** Etymology 3
From [ang].
**** Pronunciation
- [byre]
**** Noun
[m]
1. strong wind , storm
***** Descendants
- [enm]
*** Etymology 4
From [ang], related to [ang].
**** Pronunciation
- [byre]
**** Noun
[m]
1. time , opportunity ; occurrence
***** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Etymology 5
Probably related to [ang]. Perhaps identical to the word for a farm or
dwelling in [de], [nl].
**** Pronunciation
- [bȳre]
**** Noun
[head=bȳre]
1. stall , shed , hut
***** Derived terms
- [ang]
***** Descendants
- [en]
[ang] [ang] [ang]
** Scots
*** Etymology
From [sco], but possibly influenced in usage by Gaelic "bò" meaning a cow.
*** Noun
[sco-noun]
1. A cattle shed or outhouse
**** Derived terms
- byreman , cattleherd
- byregraip , a dung fork.