different between morne vs mourne

English

Etymology 1

Noun

morne (countable and uncountable, plural mornes)

1. Obsolete spelling of mourn
2. Obsolete spelling of morn

Verb

morne (third-person singular simple present mornes, present participle morning, simple past and past participle morned)

1. Obsolete spelling of mourn

Etymology 2

Noun

morne (plural mornes)

1. The blunt head of a jousting-lance.
2. A small, rounded hill.

Anagrams

• Menor, enorm, meron, moner, more'n

French

Etymology

From Middle French morne, from Old French morne, murne, (compare Old French morner (“to mourn”)), from Frankish *murn, from Proto-Germanic *murnaz. Cognate with English mourn, Old Norse morna (“to pine away”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (maurnan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??n/

Adjective

morne (plural mornes)

1. gloomy, glum, dismal, dreary

Related terms

• morné

Further reading

• “morne” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• norme, renom

English

Etymology 1

See morne.

Noun

mourne (plural mournes)

1. The armed or feruled end of a staff.
2. The end of a sheephook to which the hook is attached.

Etymology 2

Verb

mourne (third-person singular simple present mournes, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned or mourn'd)

1. Obsolete spelling of mourn

Anagrams

• Munroe, numero