different between cairned vs cairn
cairned
English
Etymology
cairn +? -ed
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k???nt/, /k???nd/
Adjective
cairned (not comparable)
- Possessed of a cairn.
- 2008: Henry Irwin Jenkinson, Jenkinson’s Smaller Practical Guide to North Wales, page 59 (BiblioBazaar, LLC; ?ISBN, 978-0559007736)
- At the W. end of the ridge on which the spectator is standing, are Penmaen Bach, and Allt Wen, over which peers the three-cairned summit of Penmaen Mawr.
- 2008: Henry Irwin Jenkinson, Jenkinson’s Smaller Practical Guide to North Wales, page 59 (BiblioBazaar, LLC; ?ISBN, 978-0559007736)
Anagrams
- adrenic, carnied, dancier, dracine
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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)
- 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.
- 1826, Thomas Campbell, Glenara, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, page 105:
- 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.
- 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)
- cairn
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /k????n??/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ka???n??/
Noun
cairn
- inflection of carn:
- vocative/genitive singular
- nominative/dative plural
Mutation
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