iren
Galician
Verb
iren
- third-person plural personal infinitive of ir
Luxembourgish
Verb
iren (third-person singular present iert, past participle gëiert, auxiliary verb hunn)
- superseded spelling of ieren
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English īsern, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną, from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiːrən/
Noun
iren (plural irnes)
Adjective
iren
- made or consisting of iron
Related terms
Descendants
- English: iron
- → Marshallese: aen
- English: (Ottawa Valley) iern, eirn
- Scots: airn, ern, irne
- Yola: eeren
References
- “īren, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “īren, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
iren m
- definite singular of ire
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
iren m
- definite singular of ire
Old English
Etymology
Syncopic form of isern. Syncope of -s- in words for iron is an areal feature shared with insular Celtic languages.
Noun
īren m
- alternative form of īsern
Salar
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *irim.
Pronunciation
- (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): /iren/, /erɨn/
Noun
iren
References
- 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “iren”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 186
- Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “iiren”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 139