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Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic جِلْد (jild).

Pronunciation

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Noun

cild (definite accusative cildi, plural cildlər)

  1. binding (spine of a book)
  2. book volume, book copy

Declension

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Derived terms

Further reading

  • cild” in Obastan.com.
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Middle English

Noun

cild

  1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of child

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (womb; fetus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃild/, [t͡ʃiɫd]

Noun

ċild n

  1. child
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilius, Bishop"
      He be-het þæt he wolde and se halga ge-bæd for þæt seoce cyld and him wæs sona bet.
      He promised that he would, and the saint prayed for the sick child, and he was instantly better.
    • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
      Þā ċildru rīdaþ on heora stafum and maniġfealde plegan plegaþ þǣr hīe hyriaþ ealdum mannum.
      The children ride their sticks and play all kinds of games where they imitate adults.
    • c. 992, Ælfric, “The Deposition of St. Cuthbert, Bishop”
      Sē ēadega Cūðbeorht, þā þā hē wæs eahtawintre ċild, rann swā swā him his nytenlīċe ield tyhte plegende mid his efnealdum.
      The blessed Cuthbert, when he was an eight-year-old child, was running around like his innocent age urged him to do and playing with his peers.
  2. baby
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Luke 2:12
      Ġē ġemētaþ ān ċild hræġlum bewunden and on binne āleġd.
      You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.

Usage notes

  • Ċild and bearn both translate "child," but they bear somewhat different shades of meaning. Bearn refers to a child of someone, and is most often found in possessive phrases such as "his child" and "her child"—like Modern English "son" and "daughter," but gender-neutral. Ċild only occasionally appears in those contexts but is the default word in all others—a gender-neutral term for "boy" or "girl." This difference can be seen in derived compounds such as ċildhād (childhood) and bearnlīest (childlessness). Another Old English word for a child is reconstructed as *gyrele.

Declension

Strong z-stem:

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Also often appears as an a-stem: Strong a-stem:

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Descendants

  • Middle English: child
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