cild

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) binding spine of a book
 * 2) book volume, book copy

Etymology
From, , from.

Noun

 * 1) child
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilius, Bishop"
 * "ang"

- He be-het þæt he wolde and se halga ge-bæd for þæt seoce cyld and him wæs sona bet.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Þā ċildru rīdaþ on heora stafum and maniġfealde plegan plegaþ þǣr hīe hyriaþ ealdum mannum.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, “The Deposition of St. Cuthbert, Bishop”
 * "ang"

- Sē ēadega Cūðbeorht, þā þā hē wæs eahtawintre ċild, rann swā swā him his nytenlīċe ield tyhte plegende mid his efnealdum.


 * 1) baby
 * 2) * c. 990, , Luke 2:12
 * "ang"

- Ġē ġemētaþ ān ċild hræġlum bewunden and on binne āleġd.

Usage notes

 * Ċild and 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  and.

Declension
Also often appears as an a-stem: