biernan

Etymology
Metathesis of earlier, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to burn
 * 2) * c. 900, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Man ġeseah swelċe sē heofon burne.


 * 1) * translation of "Alexander the Great's Letter to Aristotle"
 * "ang"

- Þā fȳr fēollon on þā eorðan swelċe biernende þæċele, and eall sē feld barn.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Lord"
 * "ang"

- Hé wearð ða afylled mid graman, and hét onǽlén þone ófen swiðe ðearle, and hét gebindan ða cnihtas handum and fotum, and awurpan into ðam byrnendum ófne.


 * 1) * , Manuscript A, year 1066
 * "ang"

- Hēr forþfērde Ēadward cyning, and Hereweald eorl fēng tō þām rīċe and hēold hit fēowertiġ wucena and ǣnne dæġ, and hēr cōm Willelm and ġewann Engla land, and hēr on þissum ġēare barn Cristes ċiriċe, and hēr ætīewde comēta þȳ nigontēoðan dæġe ēastermōnaþes.