sarn

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English

Etymology

From Welsh sarn (“a causeway, paving”).

Noun

sarn (plural sarns)

  1. (archaic, Wales) A pavement or stepping stone.
  2. (archaic, Wales) A causeway.
    • 1906, H.C. Tierney, “What Does "Pensarn" Mean”, in Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, volumes 1-6, page 23:
      "Not now," he went on, "but there was a high sarn formerly, and only for that both vehicles and foot passengers would ovten have found it impossible to get into Carmarthen from that direction. The tides and floods there were terrible in those times."
    • 1913, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, page 105:
      The ground in the immediate neighbourhood is somewhat boggy and treacherous, and a 'sarn' has doubtless always been necessary for traversing the bog.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sarn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sarn/
  • Rhymes: -arn
  • Syllabification: sarn

Noun

sarn f

  1. genitive plural of sarna
    Synonym: saren

Further reading

  • sarn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sarna, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śarna. Cognates include Finnish saarna.

Noun

sarn

  1. tale, story

Declension

Inflection of sarn (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing. sarn
genitive sing. sarnan
partitive sing. sarnad
partitive plur. sarnoid
singular plural
nominative sarn sarnad
accusative sarnan sarnad
genitive sarnan sarnoiden
partitive sarnad sarnoid
essive-instructive sarnan sarnoin
translative sarnaks sarnoikš
inessive sarnas sarnoiš
elative sarnaspäi sarnoišpäi
illative sarnaha sarnoihe
adessive sarnal sarnoil
ablative sarnalpäi sarnoilpäi
allative sarnale sarnoile
abessive sarnata sarnoita
comitative sarnanke sarnoidenke
prolative sarnadme sarnoidme
approximative I sarnanno sarnoidenno
approximative II sarnannoks sarnoidennoks
egressive sarnannopäi sarnoidennopäi
terminative I sarnahasai sarnoihesai
terminative II sarnalesai sarnoilesai
terminative III sarnassai —
additive I sarnahapäi sarnoihepäi
additive II sarnalepäi sarnoilepäi

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread”)[1], perhaps via Proto-Celtic *star-no-[2] (see Proto-Celtic *starnati (“to strew”)).

Noun

sarn f (plural sarnau, not mutable)

  1. causeway
  2. stepping stones, pathway

Derived terms

  • Sarn (places in Wales)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
sarn unchanged unchanged unchanged

References

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sarn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*star-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 354
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