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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɜːn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɝːn/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)n
• 異形同音異義語: earn, ern, urn

語源 1

From 中期英語 ern, erne, earn, from 古期英語 earn (“eagle”), from Proto-West Germanic *arnu (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arnuz (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) (whence also Arnold), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird, eagle”).

Cognate with North Frisian Aarn, iarn, jarn (“eagle”), West Frisian earn (“eagle”), Dutch arend (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Low German Arend (“eagle”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ørn (“eagle”), Icelandic and Swedish örn (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (órneon), ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) (whence ornitho-), translingual -ornis, Proto-Slavic *orьlъ (“eagle”).

別の表記

• earn, ern

名詞

erne (plural ernes)

1. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
   • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 274:

     Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen!

   • 1985, Amadon, Dean, “Review of The Return of the Sea Eagle”, in The Auk‎, volume 102, number 1, pages 218-19:

     [T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle).

2. (chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.

   the bald erne

同意語

• (an eagle): sea eagle, white-tailed eagle

派生語

• bald erne

語源 2

別の表記

• earn

動詞

erne

1. (obsolete) To long; to yearn.

アナグラム

• NEER, Neer, Rene, ne'er, neer, reen

形容詞

erne

1. willing, eager, covetous, swift, nimble, earnest
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     But of her songe, it was so loude & erne / As any swalowe syttynge on a berne

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語源 2

名詞

erne

1. alternative form of ern (“eagle”)

語源 3

動詞

erne

1. alternative form of ernen