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earnt

English

Alternative forms

  • earned

Etymology

From earn +? -t

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??nt/

Verb

earnt

  1. (chiefly British) simple past tense and past participle of earn

Usage notes

  • Written, this is an uncommon (<0.5% as common as earned in the British National Corpus) alternative form of the simple past and past participle earned. This form is, however, more commonly spoken than written. Other verbs which can be conjugated in this way are: learn (learnt), dream (dreamt), spell (spelt). But those forms are considered standard, whereas "earnt" is often considered non-standard.

Anagrams

  • Arent, Netra, Teran, antre, aren't, arent, atren, nater

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earn

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

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