different between bawn vs kawn
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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kawn
English
Alternative forms
- khan
Noun
kawn (plural kawns)
- An inn in Turkey.
References
- kawn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Kwan, knaw, wank
Jingpho
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese ????? (a.hkwan)
Noun
kawn
- tax
References
- Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?[1], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128
Yir-Yoront
Noun
kawn
- water
References
- Barry Alpher, Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian Language
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