different between gawn vs lawn

English

Etymology 1

Corrupted from gallon.

Noun

gawn (plural gawns)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.

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Etymology 2

Corrupted from going.

Verb

gawn

1. (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
   • 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:

     I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.

   • 2007, Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings, page 110:

     Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be gawn.”

   • 2014, Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep, page 3:

     “Ah'm gawn to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”

Anagrams

• AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gnaw, gwan, wang

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?n/

Noun

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Verb

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l?n/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *land?, both from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land.

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)

1. An open space between woods.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
3. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Derived terms

• Chapel Lawn
• lawned
• lawn food
• lawn mower

Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)

1. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 144:

     He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.

2. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
3. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
   • 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:

     […] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]

Translations

References

• lawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• WLAN, nawl

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau?n/

Adjective

lawn

1. Soft mutation of llawn.

Adverb

lawn

1. Soft mutation of llawn.

Mutation