different between hearn vs hern
hearn
English
Verb
hearn
- (dialectal) past participle of hear
Anagrams
- Ahern, Ahner, Haner, Haren, Nehra, Rhean
hearn From the web:
hern
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Etymology 1
From Middle English herne, hyrne, from Old English hyrne (“corner”), from Proto-Germanic *hurnij?, *hurnij? (“projecting point, corner, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”). More at hirn.
Alternative forms
- herne, hirn, hirne, hurn, hurne, hon
Noun
hern (plural herns)
- (now chiefly dialectal) Corner, nook.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A recess beside a wide chimney-fireside.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A corner of angular piece of land; a nook of land projecting into another district, parish, or field.
Etymology 2
From Middle English hiren, hirne, from the same source as her. The -n was added (especially in the speech of the Midlands and Southern England, starting in the 1300s) by analogy with mine and thine. (Compare ourn.) Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, hers, which see for more. Cognate with West Flemish heurn (“hern”).
Alternative forms
- her'n
Pronoun
hern
- (obsolete outside Britain and US dialects, especially Appalachia) Hers; her own.
Etymology 3
Dialectal variant of heron.
Noun
hern (plural herns)
- (dialectal or poetic) heron.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 73:
- "Now for Swans & Ducks, and such like Birds of the Water, it is obvious to take notice how well they are fitted for that manner of life. For those that swim, their Feet are framed for it like a pair of Oars, their Claws being connected with a pretty broad Membrane; and their Necks are long, that they may dive deep enough into the water. As also the Neck of the Hern, and such like Fowl who live of Fishes, and are fain to frequent their Element, who walk on long stilts also like the people that dwell in the Marshes; but their Claws have no such Membranes, for they had been but a hindrance to those kind of Birds that onely wade in the water, and do not swim."
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 73:
Anagrams
- Hren
Cornish
Etymology
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Noun
hern f (singulative hernen)
- pilchards, sardines
Derived terms
- hern gwynn/hern gwydn
Middle English
Etymology 1
Pronoun
hern
- Alternative form of hiren
References
- “hiren,, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 June 2018.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
hern
- Alternative form of heren (“theirs”)
References
- “heren,, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 June 2018.
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