iren

See also: Iren, Irén, Irēn, İren, and -iren

Galician

Verb

iren

  1. third-person plural personal infinitive of ir

Luxembourgish

Verb

iren (third-person singular present iert, past participle gëiert, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. superseded spelling of ieren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)

  1. iron

Adjective

iren

  1. made or consisting of iron

Descendants

  • English: iron
    • Marshallese: aen
  • English: (Ottawa Valley) iern, eirn
  • Scots: airn, ern, irne
  • Yola: eeren

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

iren m

  1. definite singular of ire

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

iren m

  1. 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

  1. alternative form of īsern

Salar

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *irim.

Pronunciation

  • (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): /iren/, /erɨn/

Noun

iren

  1. cheese

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