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Birth

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means the emergence of a baby or young animal from its mother's body
1
Stage 1 of 2
byrth
Old Norse · medieval
"the act of being born"
the act of being born, replacing an earlier native English form
2
Stage 2 of 2
birth
English · 1200s
"the emergence of a new individual from its mother"
settled as the standard English word for coming into life
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