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cairn

English

Etymology

From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic carn (heap of stones), from Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (horn).

Compare Welsh carn, Cornish carn. Doublet of carn and horn.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??n/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /k???n/

Noun

cairn (plural cairns)

  1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
    • 1826, Thomas Campbell, Glenara, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, page 105:
      "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
  2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
  3. A cairn terrier.

Synonyms

  • burial mound

Derived terms

  • cairned (adjective)
  • cairn terrier

Translations

References

  • cairn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • “cairn”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Anagrams

  • CARIN, Crain, Nicar., racin'

French

Noun

cairn m (plural cairns)

  1. cairn

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /k????n??/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ka???n??/

Noun

cairn

  1. inflection of carn:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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tomb

English

Etymology

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek ?????? (túmbos, a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (to swell).

The verb is from Middle English tomben.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tu?m/?
  • (US) IPA(key): /tum/
  • Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

tomb (plural tombs)

  1. A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
  2. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
  3. One who keeps secrets.
    • 1912 Constance Garnett (tr.), Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Book III, chapter 4
      I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.

Derived terms

  • disentomb
  • entomb
  • tombstone

Descendants

  • ? Irish: tuama
  • ? Maori: toma

Translations

Verb

tomb (third-person singular simple present tombs, present participle tombing, simple past and past participle tombed)

  1. (transitive) To bury.

Catalan

Etymology

From tombar.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?tomp/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /?tom/
  • Homophone: tom (Central)

Noun

tomb m (plural tombs)

  1. turn (change of direction)
  2. turn, twist (movement around an axis)
  3. turn (change of temperament or circumstance)
  4. walk, stroll

Derived terms

  • venir a tomb

Further reading

  • “tomb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Noun

tomb (plural tombes)

  1. Alternative form of tombe (tomb)

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