börd

From the verb bära, just like English birth relates to the verb bear. From Old Swedish byrþ, from Old Norse burðr, byrð, Proto-Germanic *burdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

börd c

1. a birth (the event), childbirth, delivery
2. nobility, birthright, descent, ancestry, lineage (the privileges that come with birth, e.g. for a nobleman)

   en kvinna av börd och en man av folket

   a noble woman and a man of the people

• börd in Svensk ordbok.

• bröd