different between earn vs carn

English

Etymology 1

From Old English earnian, from Middle English ernen, from Proto-West Germanic *a?an?n, from Proto-Germanic *azan?n?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n/
• (US) enPR: ûrn, IPA^(key): /?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: ern, erne, urn

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned or (chiefly UK) earnt)

1. (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
2. (transitive) To receive payment for work.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. (intransitive) To receive payment for work.

4. (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
5. (transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.

Synonyms

• (gain through applied effort or work): deserve, merit, garner, win
• ((transitive) receive payment for work):
• ((intransitive) receive payment for work):
• (cause someone to receive payment or reward): yield, make, generate, render

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably either:

• from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands)  [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnen (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
• a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned) (Britain, dialectal)

1. (transitive, archaic) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

   Synonyms: run, (Northern England, Scotland) yearn

2. (intransitive, obsolete) Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.

Etymology 3

A variant of yearn.

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve.

Etymology 4

Noun

earn (plural earns)

1. Alternative form of erne

References

Anagrams

• Arne, Near, Nera, eRNA, erna, nare, near, rean

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér? (“eagle, large bird”). Cognate with Old Frisian *ern, Old Saxon *arn, Old Dutch *arn, Old High German arn, Old Norse ?rn, Gothic ???????????? (ara); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Ancient Greek ????? (órnis, “bird”), Old Armenian ???? (oror, “gull”), Old Irish irar, Lithuanian er?lis, Old Church Slavonic ????? (or?l?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??rn/, [æ??r?n]

Noun

earn m

1. eagle

Declension

Descendants

• English: erne

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér?.

Noun

earn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje)

1. eagle
2. (figuratively) miser

Further reading

• “earn”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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