An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Geburt
Geburt, feminine, from the equivalent Middle High German geburt, Old High German giburt, feminine, ‘birth.’ Compare Gothic gabaurpþs, feminine, ‘birth,’ also ‘lineage, native town,’ Old Saxon giburd, feminine, Anglo-Saxon gebyrd, feminine, ‘birth, rank, dignity,’ English birth, Old Icelandic burþr, masculine, ‘birth, embryo’; in form it points to Aryan and Sanscrit bhṛtí-s, and both in form and meaning it corresponds to Old Irish brith, ‘birth’; Sanscrit bhṛtí-s, feminine, ‘bearing, nursing, maintenance’ With the simple Teutonic beran, ‘to give birth to,’ is connected an Old Teutonic neuter substantive barna-, ‘child’ (literally ‘that which is born’), formed from the old no-partic. Compare Old Icelandic barn, Anglo-Saxon bearn, Old Saxon, Old High German, and Middle High German barn, ‘child, son.’