different between awn vs beardless

English

Etymology

From Middle English aw(u)ne, agune, agene, from Old Danish aghn (compare modern Danish avne), from Proto-Germanic *agan?, *ahan? (“chaff”) (compare Old English ægnan, Dutch agen, German Ahne, Agen), from Proto-Indo-European *a?an? (compare Latin agna (“ear of wheat”), Lithuanian ašnìs (“edge, blade”), Czech osina, Ancient Greek ?????? (ákaina, “spike, prick”), ?????? (ákanos, “pine-thistle”), Sanskrit ???? (a?áni, “thunderbolt, arrow tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”). More at edge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: on (US, Southern) (US, Midland American English) (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

awn (plural awns)

1. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

Translations

Anagrams

• NWA, WAN, Wan, naw, wan, wan-

Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.un/, /au?n/

Verb

awn

1. inflection of mynet:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/imperative
   2. first-person singular imperfect indicative

Portuguese

Interjection

awn

1. (Internet slang) aw, aww (express affection)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (first-person singular conditional): elwn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /au?n/

Verb

awn

1. inflection of mynd:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/future
   2. first-person singular conditional
   3. (literary) first-person plural imperative

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English b?rdl?s, from Old English beardl?as (“beardless”), from Proto-Germanic *bardalausaz (“beardless”), equivalent to beard +? -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

Adjective

beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

1. Lacking a beard.
2. (by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
   • 1596 Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1

     shall a beardless boy,

     Cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,

     And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,

     Mocking the air with colours idly spread,

     And find no check?

3. Destitute of an awn.

   beardless wheat

4. (ornithology) Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

Derived terms

• beardlessness

Related terms

• beard
• bearded
• beardedness
• debeard

Translations

Anagrams

• breadless, dressable