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bawn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
From Irish bábhún (“walled enclosure”).
Noun
bawn (plural bawns)
- A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
- But these round hills and square bawnes, which you see so strongly trenched and throwne up
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, Thomas Sheridan (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), 1812, The British Classics, Volume 45: The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI, page 163:
- The Grand Question Debated
- Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house ? 1729
- This Hamilton's bawn, while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider.
- 1892, Joseph Jacobs (editor), Jack and His Master, Celtic Fairy Tales:
- When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?
- A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.
- 2004, Colm J. Donnelly, Passage or Barrier? Communication between Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick, in Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002, page 57:
- The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”
- 2004, Colm J. Donnelly, Passage or Barrier? Communication between Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick, in Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002, page 57:
Etymology 2
Participle
bawn
- Pronunciation spelling of born.
- 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny:
- But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.
- 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny:
Anagrams
- WNBA
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bau?n/
Verb
bawn
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod
Synonyms
- byddwn
Mutation
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awn
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)
- 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
- inflection of mynet:
- first-person plural present indicative/imperative
- first-person singular imperfect indicative
Portuguese
Interjection
awn
- (Internet slang) aw, aww (express affection)
Welsh
Alternative forms
- (first-person singular conditional): elwn
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /au?n/
Verb
awn
- inflection of mynd:
- first-person plural present indicative/future
- first-person singular conditional
- (literary) first-person plural imperative
Mutation
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