sterne

sterne (comparative sterner, superlative sternest)

1. Obsolete spelling of stern.

sterne (plural sternes)

1. Obsolete spelling of stern.

• renest, Enters, enters, ternes, nester, treens, ernest, Ernest, strene, Teners, tenser, resent, Treens, Senter, rentes, entres

Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish terne or Swedish tärna, both from Old Norse þerna.

• IPA^(key): /stɛʁn/

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• Homophone: sternes

sterne f (plural sternes)

1. tern (bird)

• sterne caugek

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

• entres, entrés
• Ernest
• rentes, rentés
• ternes

sterne f

1. plural of sterna

sterne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sternō

• stern, starne, starn, sterrne, steorrne

Borrowed from Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of sterre.

sterne (plural sternes)

1. a luminous body visible in the sky; a star or planet
2. the shape of a star

• sterre
• tungol
• planete

• English: starn (dialectal)
• Scots: starn

• “sterne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 August 2018.

• stërre, stërn

Inherited from Old High German sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō, variant of *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠tɛrnə/

stërne m

1. star

• Alemannic German: Stern
• Bavarian: Stean

  Mòcheno: stern

• Central Franconian: Stään, Stär, Stären, Stern

  Hunsrik: Stern

  Luxembourgish: Stär

• German: Stern
• Vilamovian: śtaom
• Yiddish: שטערן (shtern)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
• “sterne” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.