burna

burna [AS burna] , (N. Eng. & Scot.) burn, stream. b (S. Eng.) (?) bourn, stream. a1165 sursum usque ad ~am de Fauhope que cadit in Ledre Melrose I 3 (cf. ib. 9); c1205 inter ~am de Schotte-schalef et viam per quam itur ad petariam Reg. Glasg. 85; a1270 a Derwenta per ~am de Akedene contra montem (Ch. Blanchland) MonA VI 886; 1430 sicut Horsewelle oritur et descendit in ~am Feod. Durh. 55.  b tendit ‥ in rivulum ‥ et ita ascendendo contra cursum aque usque ad domum Oswardi de la Burne ‥ et sic sursum de illa ~a in viam W. Malm. Glast. 106 (cf. MonA I 23); 12‥ concessi ‥ v acras terre ‥ cum borna adversus austrum in parochia de Lamehith Cart. S. Thom. Hosp. no. 499 (cf. ib. no. 558).