Etymology

borne

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Today it means: carried, supported. Full definition →

Middle English boren /iborne ← Old English (ġe)boren ← Proto-West Germanic *beran
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
  3. Proto-Germanic*beraną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*beran
  5. Old Englishberan
  6. Old English(ġe)boren
  7. Middle Englishboren /iborne
  8. English todayborne

From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishboren all →

bore

Old Englishboren all →

born

Old Englishberan all →

bear

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.