dorn

See also: Dorn and dòrn

English

Etymology

Compare German Dorn (“thorn”).

Noun

dorn (plural dorns)

  1. A British ray; the thornback.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dorn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔrn/

Noun

dorn m (plural dornioù, dual daouarn)

  1. hand

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Noun

dorn m (dual dewdhorn or diwla, plural dornow)

  1. hand
  2. fist
  3. handle

Mutation
  Mutation of dorn  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehardmixedmixed after 'th
dorn dhorn unchanged torn torn torn

References
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish dorn, from Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠʌɾˠən̪ˠ/[1]
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /d̪ˠoːɾˠn̪ˠ/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔɾˠən/; /ˈd̪ˠauɾˠnə/[2] (corresponding to the form dorna)
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɔːɾˠn̪ˠ/

Noun

dorn m (genitive singular doirn, nominative plural doirne)

  1. fist

Declension
Declension of dorn

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dorn doirne
Vocative a dhorn a dhoirne
Genitive doirn dorn
Dative dorn doirne

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dorn na doirne
Genitive an doirn na ndorn
Dative leis an dorn

don dorn

 leis na doirne

Alternative plural forms:

Derived terms
  • dornáil (“to box, fist; boxing, fisting”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dorn dhorn ndorn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 15
  2. Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 68.

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tu̯ɛn (“son, boy”). Cognate with White Hmong tub.

Noun

dorn 

  1. boy

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch thorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn.

Noun

dorn m

  1. thorn
  2. thornbush

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants
  • Dutch: doren, doorn

Further reading
  • “dorn”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “dorn”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos, further etymology unknown; possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Cognate with Welsh dwrn.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdorn/

Noun

dorn m (genitive duirn)

  1. hand, fist
  2. handle

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dorn dornL duirnL
Vocative duirn dornL durnuH
Accusative dornN dornL durnuH
Genitive duirnL dorn dornN
Dative durnL dornaib dornaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: dorn
    • Irish: dorn
    • Scottish Gaelic: dòrn
    • Manx: doarn

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
dorn dorn
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/		 ndorn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*durno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109

Further reading
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