Old English boren, alternative past participle of beran (see bear (v.)). The -en of the Middle English past participles tended to drop the -e- in some verbs, especially after vowels, -r-, and -l- , hence also slain, etc., Middle English stoln. "In modern use the connexion with bear is no longer felt; the phrase to be born has become virtually an intr. verb" [OED].

It is attested from early 14c. as "possessing from birth the character or quality described" (born poet, born loser, etc.). It is from 1710 as "innate, inherited;" the colloquial expression in (one's) born days "in (one's) lifetime" is by 1742.  The distinction of born from borne (q.v.) is 17c. 

"so by nature, born so," 1580s, from natural (adj.) + born.

also highborn, "of noble birth," c. 1300, from high (adv.) + born.

Old English welboren; see well (adv.) + born.

"first in order of birth," as a noun, "first-born child," mid-14c., from first (adj.) + born.

"inheriting liberty," mid-14c., from free (adj.) + born. Old English had freolic (adj.) "free, free-born; glorious, magnificent, noble; beautiful, charming," which became Middle English freli, "a stock epithet of compliment," but which died out, perhaps as the form merged with that of freely (adv.).

"born again or anew," physically or spiritually, 1590s, from re- "back, again" + born.

"while being born," 1893, American English; see a- (1) + born + -ing (2).

also new-born, "just born or very lately born," c. 1300, from new + born. As a noun, "a newborn child," from 1879.

"carried, sustained, endured," past tense and participle of bear (v.) in all senses not related to birth. See born.