different between carn vs warn

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n/

Etymology 1

Noun

carn (plural carns)

1. Archaic form of cairn.

See also

• Carn Brea

Etymology 2

Adapted from the vernacular pronunciation of c'mon, itself an informal variant of come on. The first uses of the term in its extended sense appear to have been amongst Australian rules football fans in Victoria, with the use later spreading to other states and sports.

Interjection

carn

1. (Australia, informal) Come on.
   • 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52:

     Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.
     "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory."
     "I don't think so," I said.
     "It's the only way home now."

2. (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
   • 1956 September 10, "Carn the Magpies!", The Argus
   • 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected", The Sydney Morning Herald

     Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.

   • 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC", The Age

     Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first."

   • 2011 October 11, "Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", Herald Sun

Anagrams

• Cran, NRCA, cRNA, cran, cran-, crna, narc

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin car?, carnem, from Proto-Italic *kar?, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?karn/

Noun

carn f (uncountable)

1. meat
2. flesh

Derived terms

• cansalada
• carnisser
• carnós
• carnut

Related terms

• carnal
• carnaval
• carnestoltes
• carnívor

Further reading

• “carn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carn” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “carn” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carn” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

carn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)

1. heap, pile
2. cairn

Declension

Derived terms

• carn consan

Mutation

Further reading

• “carn” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “carn” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 119.
• "carn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn (Limousin)

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. flesh
2. meat

Old French

Noun

carn f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)

1. (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of char (flesh)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn

Etymology

From Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f

1. flesh

Descendants

• Catalan: carn
• Occitan: carn

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar?/

Noun

carn m

1. flesh
2. meat

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) charn
• (Sutsilvan) tgarn
• (Surmiran) tgern

Etymology

From Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. (Sursilvan) meat

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Noun

carn f (plural carnau)

1. cairn, barrow

Derived terms

• carnedd (“cairn”)

Noun

carn m (plural carnau)

1. hoof
2. handle, haft

Derived terms

• carnol (“hoofed”)

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophone: worn (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology

From Middle English warnen, warnien (“to warn; admonish”), from Old English warnian (“to take heed; warn”), from Proto-Germanic *warn?n? (“to warn; take heed”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to be aware; give heed”). Cognate with Dutch waarnen (obsolete), German Low German warnen, German warnen, Swedish varna, Icelandic varna.

Verb

warn (third-person singular simple present warns, present participle warning, simple past and past participle warned)

1. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
   1. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc. [from 11th c.]

      We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic about the accident.

      I phoned to warn him of the road closure.

   2. (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something). [from at least the 13th c.]

      I warned him he'd be getting a huge box of birthday presents from me.

   3. (transitive) To summon (someone) to or inform of a formal meeting or duty.

      The sheriff warned her to appear in court.

      • 1741–2 March 4, Books of Keelman's Hospital, Newcastle, quoted in Northumberland Words (1894):

        Committee being warned these following were absent or short [...]

      • 1874, Walter Gregor, An Echo of the Olden Time from the North of Scotland, page 142:

        The people had been invited to the funeral, or warnt, by a special messenger a few days before the funeral took place.

      • 1889, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the [State of] Vermont, page 490:

        [...] the plaintiff fraudulently warned the meeting for November 15, giving only five days' notice [...]

   4. (transitive, intransitive, of a clock, possibly obsolete) To make a sound (e.g. clicking or whirring) indicating that it is about to strike or chime (an hour).
      • 1885, Walter Towers, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, page 189:

        Hark! the clock is warning ten;

      • 1885, Emma Marshall, In the East Country with Sir Thomas Browne, page 106:

        No, not a word more, Andrew; the clock has warned for nine, and I am off.

      • 1902, Violet Jacob, The Sheep-Stealers, page 399:

        The clock warned, and the hands pointed to a few minutes before the hour. The preacher looked towards it. "And, as you sit here," he cried," the Old Year is dragging out its last moments and the New Year is coming up —"

      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:warn.
2. (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. [from 11th c.]

   He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.

   Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.

3. (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.

   A sign warns trespassers off/away from the site.

4. (intransitive) To give warning.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, tr. Bible, Galatians II, 9-10:

     then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin 1995, p. 177:

     She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].

   • 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Picador 2000, p. 496:

     She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.

   • 1991, Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer, Jonathan Cape 1992:

     Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas, The Waltons, Star Trek and Twin Peaks.

Usage notes

• The intransitive sense is considered colloquial by some, and is explicitly proscribed by, for example, the Daily Telegraph style guide (which prefers give warning).

Derived terms

• forewarn
• warner
• warning

Translations

Anagrams

• ANWR

Middle English

Verb

warn

1. Alternative form of weren
2. Alternative form of wernen