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語源

From Proto-Germanic *staraz, compare the modern starling.

発音

• IPA: /stæ͜ɑrn/, [stæ͜ɑrˠn]

名詞

stearn m

1. some kind of bird
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Stormas þǣr stānclifu bēotan, þǣr him stearn oncwæð īsiġfeþera; ful oft þæt earn biġeal, ūriġfeþra; nǣniġ hlēomǣga fēasċeaftiġ ferð fēran meahte.

     Storms there beat stone-cliffs, where an icy-feathered bird answered 'em; that wet-feathered eagle yelled full oft; no wretched soul of shelter-kinsmen could go forth.

使用する際の注意点

The identity of the stearn is not clear in the Old English corpus, although Bosworth-Toller notes that descendants in various British dialects refer to the starling, common tern, and sea tern, so the stearn may have referred to one of these animals.

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “stearn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.