Noun: tacn
Gender:
Genitive
| Singular | tācnes |
| Plural | tācna |
Dative
| Singular | tācne |
| Plural | tācnum |
Sample Sentences
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c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year
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Ælce mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas. (Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes.")
Nouns inflected like tacn
tacn,
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *taikn.
2. Cognate with Old Frisian tēken, Old Saxon tēkan, Old High German zeihhan, Old Norse teikn, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns). See: Gothic Nouns '
𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃'.
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