kaaren

From Proto-Finnic *karnëh, from Proto-Uralic *karne, see there for further etymology. Cognates include Finnish kaarne, Livonian kārnaz, Võro kaarna, kaarnas, kaarnõq, kaarnõh, Ingrian kaarne, Veps karniš (“crow”), Karelian koarneh, Livvi kuarneh; Northern Sami gáranas, Inari Sami káránâs, Skolt Sami käärnõs (from Proto-Samic *kārënës); Erzya кренч (krenč), Moksha кранч (kranč), Eastern Mari курныж (kurnyž), Udmurt кырныж (kyrnyž), Komi-Zyrian кырныш (kyrnyš), Tundra Nenets харна (xarna), харӈэˮ (xarŋeq), Mator [script needed] (karguj). Phonetically similar terms for corvids can be found in Indo-European languages, compare Latin corvus (“raven”), cornix (“crow”), Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “crow”). Possibly onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːren/, [ˈkɑːren]
• Rhymes: -ɑːren
• Hyphenation: kaa‧ren

kaaren (genitive kaarna, partitive kaarnat)

1. raven (Corvus corax)

   Synonyms: ronk, (dialectal) korp

   Kaaren kaarna silma välja ei noki. (Estonian proverb)

   A raven won't pick out the eye of another raven.

2. (figuratively) a greedy person

• kaaren in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kaaren”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

kaaren

1. genitive singular of kaari

• arkena, kaarne