dorn
English
Noun
dorn (plural dorns)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Breton
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Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔrn/
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.
Mutation
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
Declension
Alternative plural forms:
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
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 25, page 15
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 68
- 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.
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch thorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “dorn”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dorn”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *durnos, further etymology unknown; possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Cognate with Welsh dwrn.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdor͈n/
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
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| 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:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
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| 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
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*durno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dorn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьrnъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dorn]
Declension
Further reading
- “dorn” in Soblex