acorn

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English

Acorns.
 Acorn (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

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Etymology

From Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”), etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

acorn (plural acorns)

  1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  2. (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  3. (zoology) See acorn-shell.
  4. The glans penis.
    • 2021, A. W. Strouse, Form & Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumsion:
      The Romans, likewise, represented the uncouth Priapus—the god of rustic fertility and sexual assault—as comically well endowed, with his acorn showing.
  5. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Holonyms

  • (fruit of an oak): oak

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Translations

References

  • (glans penis): Tony Thorne (2014) “acorn”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  : Bloomsbury

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English æcern, from Proto-West Germanic *akran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.

The last element of this word is often remodelled on corn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakɔrn/, /ˈaːkɔrn/

Noun

acorn

  1. An acorn or similar fruit.

Descendants

  • English: acorn
  • Scots: aicorn

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