acorn

• achorn (Chester)

From Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”), etc. Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/, /ˈeɪkɚn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔːn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɔː(ɹ)n, -eɪkə(ɹ)n

acorn (plural acorns)

2. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
3. (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
4. (zoology) See acorn-shell.
5. (informal) The glans penis.
   • 2021, A. W. Strouse, Form & Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision:

     The Romans, likewise, represented the uncouth Priapus—the god of rustic fertility and sexual assault—as comically well endowed, with his acorn showing.

6. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

• (fruit of an oak): oak

• (glans penis): Tony Thorne (2014) “acorn”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

• acorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Carno, Coran, Corna, acron, caron, coran, narco, narco-, racon

• accherne, accorn, accorne, acharn, acorne, acurne, acre, akire, akkorn, akorn, hakern, ocorn

From Old English æcern, from Proto-West Germanic *akran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.

The last element of this word is often remodelled on corn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakɔrn/, /ˈaːkɔrn/

acorn

1. An acorn or similar fruit.

• English: acorn
• Scots: aicorn

• “ā̆korn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.