aren
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aren m inan
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aren c
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Audio (file)
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aren
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦫꦺꦤ꧀ (arén).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aren (Jawi spelling ارين, plural aren-aren, informal 1st possessive arenku, 2nd possessive arenmu, 3rd possessive arennya)
Derived terms edit
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
Further reading edit
- “aren” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English earon, earun, arun, alternative present plural of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *arun, an innovated third-person present plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).
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Pronunciation edit
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aren
Usage notes edit
The usual plural form of been is aren in the North, been in the Midlands, and beth in the South; sind also existed, especially early on, but was not the predominant form in any area.
Descendants edit
- English: are
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
aren
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃ln.
Noun edit
aren f
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Spanish edit
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aren
- inflection of arar:
Swedish edit
Noun edit
aren
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Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh arenn, from Proto-Celtic *ārū. Cognate with Old Irish áru and perhaps more distantly with Hittite [Term?] (/ḫaḫri-/), Latin rēn, and Tocharian A āriñc (“heart”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈarɛn/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈaːrɛn/, /ˈarɛn/
- Rhymes: -arɛn
Noun edit
aren f (plural arennau)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
aren | unchanged | unchanged | haren |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*āron-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 42
Further reading edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “aren”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies