perne

Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.

perne (third-person singular simple present pernes, present participle perning, simple past and past participle perned)

1. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
   • 1928, William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”, in The Tower:

     Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre

• neper, preen

Inherited from Latin perna (“mussel”).

perne f (plural pernes)

1. a kind of saltwater mussel. (Mytiloida)

• “perne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pernē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of perneō

From an Iranian language. Compare Tocharian A paräṃ.

perne

1. power, rank, stage
2. glory