erne

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

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

From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-West Germanic *arō, from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) (whence also Arnold), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird, eagle”).

Cognate with Dutch and Low German arend (“eagle”), Norwegian and Danish ørn (“eagle”), Swedish örn (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (órneon), ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) (whence -ornis and ornitho-), Proto-Slavic *orьlъ (“eagle”).

• earn, ern

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

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

• bald erne

• earn

erne

1. (obsolete) To long; to yearn.

• NEER, Neer, Rene, ne'er, neer, reen

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

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.

• “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

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

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erne

1. alternative form of ern (“eagle”)

erne

1. alternative form of ernen

From Proto-Finnic *herneh.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈerne/, [ˈerne]
• Rhymes: -erne
• Hyphenation: er‧ne

erne

1. pea

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