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dorn

See also: Dorn and dòrn

English

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Etymology

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Compare German Dorn (“thorn”).

Noun

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dorn (plural dorns)

  1. A British ray; the thornback.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “dorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Breton

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Etymology

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From Old Breton durn, from Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

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Noun

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dorn m (plural dornioù, dual daouarn)

  1. hand

Cornish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Noun

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dorn m (dual dewdhorn or diwla, plural dornow)

  1. hand
  2. fist
  3. handle

Mutation

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  Mutation of dorn  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
dorn dhorn unchanged torn torn torn

References

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  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish dorn, from Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn), probably borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

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Noun

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dorn m (genitive singular doirn, nominative plural doirne)

  1. fist

Declension

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Declension of dorn

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dorn doirne
Vocative a dhorn a dhoirne
Genitive doirn dorn
Dative dorn doirne

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dorn na doirne
Genitive an doirn na ndorn
Dative leis an dorn

don dorn

leis na doirne

Alternative plural forms:

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dorn dhorn ndorn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 25, page 15
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 68
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 239, page 87

Iu Mien

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tu̯ɛn (“son, boy”). Cognate with White Hmong tub.

Noun

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dorn 

  1. boy

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch thorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn.

Noun

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dorn m

  1. thorn
  2. thornbush

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

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Descendants

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  • Dutch: doren, doorn

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *durnos, further etymology unknown; possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Cognate with Welsh dwrn.[1]

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Noun

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dorn m (genitive duirn)

  1. hand, fist
  2. handle

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dorn dornL duirnL
Vocative duirn dornL durnuH
Accusative dornN dornL durnuH
Genitive duirnL dorn dornN
Dative durnL dornaib dornaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dorn dorn
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndorn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*durno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109

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Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dь̀rnъ.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔʀn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔʀn
  • Hyphenation: dorn
  • Syllabification: dorn

Noun

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dorn m inan

  1. piece of turf

Declension

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Declension of dorn (masculine hard stem)
singular dual plural
nominative dorn dornaj dorny
genitive dorna dornow dornow
dative dornej dornomaj dornam
accusative dorn dornaj dorny
instrumental dornom dornomaj dornami
locative dornje dornomaj dornach
vocative dorno, dornje dornaj dorny

References

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  • “dorn” in Soblex
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