erne
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɝːn/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
- Homophones: earn, ern, urn
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird, eagle”). Cognate with Dutch and Low German arend (“eagle”), Norwegian and Danish ørn (“eagle”), Swedish örn (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (órneon), ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”), Proto-Slavic *orьlъ (“eagle”).
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
erne (plural ernes)
- 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[1], 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).
- (chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.
- the bald erne
Synonyms edit
- (an eagle): sea eagle, white-tailed eagle
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
Haliaeetus albicilla — see white-tailed eagle
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
erne
Anagrams edit
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Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
erne ? (imperfect participle ernetzen, future participle erneko, short form erne, verbal noun ernetze)
Further reading edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
erne
- 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)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
erne
- Alternative form of ern (“eagle”)
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
erne
- Alternative form of ernen
Votic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *herneh.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
erne
Inflection edit
Declension of erne (type XIV/terve, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | erne | erned |
genitive | erne | erneije, ernei |
partitive | ernette | erneite, ernei |
illative | ernese, erne | erneise |
inessive | ernez | erneiz |
elative | ernesse | erneisse |
allative | ernele | erneile |
adessive | ernelle | erneille |
ablative | ernelte | erneilte |
translative | ernessi | erneissi |
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. |
References edit
- Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “erne”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn