different between wren vs wern

English

Alternative forms

• wran (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English wrenne, wranne, from Old English wrenna, wrænna, werna, wærna, wrenne (“wren”), from Proto-Germanic *wrandijô (“wren”).

Cognate with Old Saxon wrendilo (“wren”), Old High German rento, rentilo (“wren”), Danish rindel (“wren”), Icelandic rindill (“wren”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

wren (plural wrens)

1. Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren.
   1. Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren)
2. Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• wren at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• wern

Middle English

Noun

wren

1. Alternative form of wrenne

English

Etymology 1

See warn.

Verb

wern (third-person singular simple present werns, present participle werning, simple past and past participle werned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To refuse.

Etymology 2

From Middle English weren, equivalent to were +? -en.

Verb

wern

1. (obsolete) plural simple past of be
   • c. 1450, The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers

     And thanne he seide to other folkes that thei shulde seye somme goode thinges for to recomforte the lordes and the people, which werne in grete trouble as for the deth of the moste noble kinge that ever was.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book IV, Canto II:

     Her name was Agape whose children werne

     All three as one, the first hight Priamond,

     The second Dyamond, the youngest Triamond.

   • 1910, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Glasgerion in The Oxford Book of English Verse

     Through the falseness of that lither lad

     These three lives wern all gone.

Anagrams

• Wren, wren

Middle English

Verb

wern

1. Alternative form of weren