Children

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Old English cild, of Germanic origin. The Middle English plural childer or childre became childeren or children by association with plurals ending in -en, such as brethren .


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From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra(“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild(“child”), equivalent to child +‎ -ren.


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children (n.)

modern plural of child (q.v.)