dorn

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See also: Dorn and dòrn

English

Etymology

Compare German Dorn (“thorn”).

Noun

dorn (plural dorns)

  1. A British ray; the thornback.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Pronunciation

Noun

dorn m (plural dornioù, dual daouarn)

  1. hand

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Noun

dorn m (dual dewdhorn or diwla, plural dornow)

  1. hand
  2. fist
  3. handle

Mutation

  Mutation of dorn  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
dorn dhorn unchanged torn torn torn

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish dorn, from Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn), probably borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Pronunciation

Noun

dorn m (genitive singular doirn, nominative plural doirne)

  1. fist

Declension

Declension of dorn

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dorn doirne
Vocative a dhorn a dhoirne
Genitive doirn dorn
Dative dorn doirne

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dorn na doirne
Genitive an doirn na ndorn
Dative leis an dorn

don dorn

leis na doirne

Alternative plural forms:

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dorn dhorn ndorn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 25, page 15
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 68
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 239, page 87

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tu̯ɛn (“son, boy”). Cognate with White Hmong tub.

Noun

dorn 

  1. boy

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch thorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn.

Noun

dorn m

  1. thorn
  2. thornbush

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Dutch: doren, doorn

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos, further etymology unknown; possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Cognate with Welsh dwrn.

Pronunciation

Noun

dorn m (genitive duirn)

  1. hand, fist
  2. handle

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dorn dornL duirnL
Vocative duirn dornL durnuH
Accusative dornN dornL durnuH
Genitive duirnL dorn dornN
Dative durnL dornaib dornaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dorn dorn
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndorn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*durno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109

Further reading

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьrnъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

dorn m inan

  1. turf, sod

Declension

Declension of dorn
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dorn dornaj dorny
Genitive dorna dornow dornow
Dative dornej dornomaj dornam
Accusative dorn dornaj dorny
Instrumental dornom dornomaj dornami
Locative dornje dornomaj dornach
Vocative dorno, dornje dornaj dorny

Further reading

  • “dorn” in Soblex
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