bearnleas

From Proto-Germanic *barnalausaz. Cognate with Old Frisian bernlās and Old Norse barnlauss. Equivalent to bearn +‎ -lēas.

bearnlēas

1. childless
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 42:36

     Þā cwæþ Iācōb heora fæder, "Bearnlēasne ġē habbaþ mē ġedōnne. Næbbe iċ Iōsēp and Simeon is on bendum; nū ġē nimaþ Beniamin æt mē."

     Then their father Jacob said, "You have made me childless. I don't have Joseph and Simeon is in chains; now you're taking Benjamin from me."

• bearnlīest

• Middle English: barnles, barneles, bærn-les
  • English: bairnless
  • Scots: bairnless

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bearnlēas”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.