acorn – English noun declension

Noun: acorn

Singular	acorn
Plural	acorns

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like acorn

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Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógr̥der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *akraną
4. Proto-West Germanic *akarn
5. Old English æcern
6. ▲
7. Middle English corninflu.
8. Middle English acorn
9. English acorn
10. Inherited from Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną (“fruit; acorn, nut”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots aicorn (“acorn”), Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese and Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran, “fruit”); Irish airne (“sloe”), Welsh aeron (“berries; small fruits”), eirin (“plums”), Latgalian ūga (“berry”), Latvian oga (“berry”), Lithuanian uoga (“berry”), Belarusian я́гада (jáhada, “berry”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian я́года (jáhoda, “berry”), Czech and Slovak jahoda (“strawberry”), Macedonian ја́года (jágoda, “strawberry”), Polish and Slovene jagoda (“berry”), Serbo-Croatian ја̏года, jȁgoda (“strawberry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B oko (“fruit”). Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne. See: Middle English Nouns 'acorn', Middle English Nouns 'acorn', Old English Nouns 'æcern', Dutch Nouns 'aker', German Nouns 'Ecker', Danish Nouns 'agern', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'åkorn', Gothic Nouns '𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽', Irish Nouns 'airne', Latvian Nouns 'oga'.

Verbs referencing "acorn"

Danish Nouns agern, German Nouns Buchecker, German Nouns Ecker.