tarn

See also Tarn

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old Norse tjǫrn (“a small mountain lake without tributaries”). Cognate with Norwegian tjern (“small forest or mountain lake”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /tɑː(ɹ)n/, X-SAMPA: /tA:(r)n/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)n

Noun

A tarn in the Lake District

tarn (plural tarns)

1. (Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, Project Gutenberg (1997), 1,

     It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.

Translations

a small mountain lake

• Dutch: bergmeertje (nl) n
• French: lac (fr) m (de montagne)
• Icelandic: tjörn (is) f
• Japanese: 凹溜まり (ja)

• Maori: pūroto  (mi)
• Norwegian: tjern (no)
• Russian: каровое озеро (károvoje ózero) n
• Spanish: laguna (es) f (de montaña)
• Swedish: tjärn (sv) c, fjällsjö (sv) c

References

• “tarn” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Anagrams

• rant
• tRNA