different between derne vs perne

English

Etymology

From Old English dyrnan (“to hide”). See dern, dearn (adjective).

Verb

derne (third-person singular simple present dernes, present participle derning, simple past and past participle derned)

1. (Scotland) To hide; to skulk.
   • 1854, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters

     He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.

Anagrams

• Ender, Rende, dreen, ender, erned

Middle English

Alternative forms

• darne, durne

Etymology

From Old English dyrne, dierne.

Adjective

derne

1. Hidden; secret.

   • For derne love of thee, lemman, I spill.

Descendants

• English: dern, dearn, darn
• Scots: dern, darn

English

Etymology

Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.

Verb

perne (third-person singular simple present pernes, present participle perning, simple past and past participle perned)

1. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
   • 1928, William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium", in The Tower:

     Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre

Anagrams

• neper, preen

French

Etymology

From Latin perna (“mussel”)

Noun

perne f (plural pernes)

1. A kind of saltwater mussel. (Mytiloida)

Further reading

• “perne” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

pern?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of perne?

Tocharian B

Etymology

From an Iranian language. Compare Tocharian A parä?.

Noun

perne

1. power, rank
2. glory