different between earn vs nett

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

Adjective

nett (not comparable)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of net (remaining after expenses or deductions).

   nett price; nett weight

Usage notes

This spelling is more dated (i.e., has been out of use for longer) in the United States than in Commonwealth countries.

Noun

nett (plural netts)

1. Obsolete form of net.

Anagrams

• tent, tent.

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Lower Rhenish Late Middle High German nett, from Middle Dutch net (“neat, decent, pretty”), from Old French net (“neat, decent”), from Latin nitidus. Cognate with German nett.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /net/

Adjective

nett (comparative netter, superlative nettischt)

1. nice
2. sweet

Declension

German

Etymology

From Middle Dutch net (“neat, decent, pretty”), from Old French net (“neat, decent”), from Latin nitidus. Compare English neat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?t/

Adjective

nett (comparative netter, superlative am nettesten)

1. (of people) nice; friendly; likable
2. (of people; deeds) kind; sweet; helpful
3. (of things; situations) nice; okay; decent; often expressing a more reluctant praise

Declension

Derived terms

• Nettigkeit

Further reading

• “nett” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse net; compare with German Netz

Noun

nett n (definite singular nettet, indefinite plural nett, definite plural netta or nettene)

1. a net
2. a network
3. (in definite singular form) nettet - the Internet

Derived terms

References

• “nett” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse net; compare with German Netz

Noun

nett n (definite singular nettet, indefinite plural nett, definite plural netta)

1. a net
2. a network
3. (in definite singular form) nettet - the Internet

Derived terms

References

• “nett” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.