ceorlboren
Old English
adj
Definitions
- low-born, not noble, common, country or free-born
Etymology
Compound from Old English ċeorl (peasant, a hero, male person, a man of inferior class, commoner, husbandman, a churl, a countryman, man, a freeman of the lowest class, layman, husband, rustic) + Old English boren (born).
Origin
Old English
boren
Gloss
born
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- borne English
- ethelborn English
- *karilaz Proto-Germanic
- beoceorl Old English
- boren Old English
- ceorlfolc Old English
- ceorlian Old English
- ceorlisc Old English
- ceorlleas Old English
- hæmedceorl Old English
- æcerceorl Old English
- æþelboren Old English
- þegenboren Old English
- þeowboren Old English
- ċeorl Old English
- born Middle English
- churl Middle English
- *boran gmw-pro