erne - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɝːn/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
- Homophones: earn, ern, urn
From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-West Germanic *arō, from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) (whence also Arnold), 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”) (whence -ornis and ornitho-), Proto-Slavic *orьlъ (“eagle”).
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 Eagl_e”, 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).
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 274:
- (chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.
the bald erne
- (an eagle): sea eagle, white-tailed eagle
- bald erne
- earn
erne
erne ? (imperfect participle ernetzen, future participle erneko, short form **erne, verbal noun ernetze)
- “erne”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “erne”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
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
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- 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:
erne
- Alternative form of ern (“eagle”)
erne
- Alternative form of ernen
From Proto-Finnic *herneh.
erne
Declension of erne (type XIV/terve, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | erne | erned |
genitive | erne | erneje, 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. |
- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “erne”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn