Old English · noun

fira bearn

Part of speech: noun, neuter

Meaning

(plural)sons of men, mankind

Etymology

From genitive plural of fíras + plural of bearn. Has a parallel in Old Saxon firihō barn, possibly stemming from a Proto-West Germanic *firhwijō barnu, with a possible analog in Old Norse fíra synir.

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