erne

See also: Erné, -erne, érne, érné, and Erne

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɝːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: earn, ern, urn

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”).

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”).

Alternative forms

• earn, ern

Noun

erne (plural ernes)

1. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
   • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 274:

     Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen!

   • 1985, Amadon, Dean, “Review of The Return of the Sea Eagle”, in The Auk‎^[1], volume 102, number 1, pages 218-19:

     [T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle).

2. (chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.

   the bald erne

Synonyms

• (an eagle): sea eagle, white-tailed eagle

Derived terms

• bald erne

Translations

bird of the genus Haliaeetus

• Catalan: pigarg m
• Esperanto: haliaeto
• French: pygargue (fr) m
• Galician: pigargo m
• Greek: θαλασσαετός m (thalassaetós)
• Hebrew: עֵיטָם (he) m (ʻēiṭām)
• Polish: bielik (pl) m
• Portuguese: pigargo m
• Romanian: codalb (ro) m
• Russian: орла́н (ru) m (orlán)
• Spanish: pigargo (es) m
• Ukrainian: орла́н m (orlán)
• Unami: òpalanie

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• earn

Verb

erne

1. (obsolete) To long; to yearn.

Anagrams

• NEER, Neer, Rene, ne'er, neer, reen

Basque

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /erne/ [er.ne]
• Rhymes: -erne, -e
• Hyphenation: er‧ne

Verb

erne ? (imperfect participle ernetzen, future participle erneko, short form erne, verbal noun ernetze)

1. to sprout, to germinate

   Artoa erne da. ― The maize has sprouted.

Further reading

• “erne”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “erne”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

erne

1. willing, eager, covetous, swift, nimble, earnest
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     But of her songe, it was so loude & erne / As any swalowe syttynge on a berne

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Noun

erne

1. alternative form of ern (“eagle”)

Etymology 3

Verb

erne

1. alternative form of ernen

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *herneh.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈerne/, [ˈernʲe]
• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈerne/, [ˈerne]
• (Central Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈerne/, [ˈerne]
• (Eastern Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈerne/, [ˈerne], /ˈerneh/, [ˈerneɦ]
• Rhymes: -erne
• Hyphenation: er‧ne

Noun

erne

1. pea

Inflection

Declension of erne (type XIV/terve, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	erne	erned
genitive	erne	erneje
partitive	ernette	erneit
illative	erne, ernese	erneise
inessive	ernez	erneiz
elative	erness	erneiss
allative	ernelle	erneille
adessive	ernell	erneill
ablative	ernelt	erneilt
translative	ernessi	erneissi
'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects. *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “erne”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Tallinn