different between xorn vs morn

English

Etymology

First appeared in the original Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual (1977).

Noun

xorn (plural xorns or xorn)

1. (fantasy) A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
   • 2002, "David Damerell", Where are they come from?^[sic] ;) (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.development)

     Various monsters can tunnel through rock - either humanoid monsters with picks or rock eaters like rock moles and umber hulks; and some monsters like xorns and ghosts can pass through it without digging.

   • 2007, "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres.... (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.angband)

     Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows at me and more pouring in through both doors a few nights ago didn't work the first two times, then when it did work it landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn!

   • 2010, Roger Bourke White, Rostov Rising: The Tales of Baron Rostov (page 229)

     That afternoon, I summoned a Xorn—an earth elemental noted for its speed—and asked it to scout the caves of the Dragon's lair for me.

Anagrams

• XNOR

English

Etymology

From Middle English morn, variant of morwe, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz (compare West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon), from Proto-Indo-European *mr?kéno, *mr?kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr?Hko (compare Welsh bore (“morning”), Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit ????? (már?ci, “ray of light”)), from *mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”) (compare Greek ???? (méra, “morning”)). See also morrow, morning.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: mourn (with horse-hoarse merger), mourne, morne

Noun

morn (countable and uncountable, plural morns)

1. (now poetic) Morning.

Synonyms

• morning, morrow; see also Thesaurus:morning

Anagrams

• NORM, Norm, Norm., norm, norm.

Alemannic German

Adverb

morn

1. tomorrow

Middle English

Noun

morn

1. Alternative form of morwe

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

morn

1. colloquial variant of god morgen

References

• “morn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “morn” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/ (example of pronunciation)

Interjection

morn

1. colloquial variant of god morgon

Derived terms

• morna

References

• “morn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English morn, variant of morwe, from Old English morgen.

Noun

morn (plural morns)

1. morning
2. (definite singular) tomorrow

   A'll gae for ma messages the morn. I'll go shopping tomorrow.

Swedish

Interjection

morn

1. Colloquial variant of god morgon

Anagrams

• norm