derne
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old English dyrnan (“to hide”). See dern, dearn (adjective).
Verb
editderne (third-person singular simple present dernes, present participle derning, simple past and past participle derned)
- (Scotland) To hide; to skulk.
- 1854, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters:
- He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “derne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English dyrne, dierne.
Adjective
editderne
- Hidden; secret.
- 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:
- For derne love of thee, lemman, I spill.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
edit- derre (determiner)
Etymology
editAdverb
editderne
Determiner
editderne
See also
editReferences
edit- “derne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
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