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erne

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/ɜːn/
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Definition of erne

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
    “Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen!”
    “[T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle).”
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noun

  1. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
    “Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen!”
    “[T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle).”
  2. (dialectal, poetic)An eagle.
    “the bald erne”

verb

  1. (obsolete)To long; to yearn.

name

  1. A river in Ireland and Northern Ireland, starting in County Cavan, entering County Fermanagh, and passing through Upper and Lower Lough Erne on its way to the sea in County Donegal.
  2. A surname from German.

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Etymology

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…

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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”).

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