Noun: erne
Sample Sentences
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Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen! [1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 274:]
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[T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle). [1985, Amadon, Dean, “Review of The Return of the Sea Eagle”, in The Auk, volume 102, number 1, pages 218-19:]
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the bald erne
Nouns inflected like erne
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-West Germanic *arnu (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arnuz (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) (whence also Arnold), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird, eagle”).
2. Cognate with North Frisian Aarn, iarn, jarn (“eagle”), West Frisian earn (“eagle”), Dutch arend (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Low German Arend (“eagle”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ørn (“eagle”), Icelandic and Swedish örn (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (órneon), ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) (whence ornitho-), translingual -ornis, Proto-Slavic *orьlъ (“eagle”). See: Middle English Nouns '
ern', Old English Nouns '
earn', Dutch Nouns '
arend', German Nouns '
Aar', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὄρνεον'.
Verbs referencing "erne"
Ancient Greek Nouns
ὄρνεον.