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発音

• IPA(key): /ˈdɜː(ɹ)n/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)n

語源 2

From Middle English dern, derne, from 古期英語 dyrne, dierne (“hidden, secret, retired, obscure, remote, eluding detection, concealed, deceitful, evil, magical”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”).

語源 3

From Middle English dernen, dærnen, from 古期英語 dyrnan, diernan (“to keep secret, conceal, hide, restrain, repress, hide oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”), from *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Cognate with Old Saxon dernian (“to conceal”), German tarnen (“to camougflage, disguise”). See also darn, tarnish.

名詞

dern (複数形 derns)

1. (UK) A gatepost or doorpost.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Ch. XIV, How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings
     So I just put my eye between the wall and the dern of the gate, and I saw him come up to the back door […]