sarn
See also: Sarn
English
Etymology
From Welsh sarn (“a causeway, paving”), which could be from Proto-Celtic *star-no-, related to *starnati (“to strew”).[1]
Noun
sarn (plural sarns)
- (archaic, Wales) A pavement or stepping stone.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 sarn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*star-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 354
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sarn/
- Rhymes: -arn
- Syllabification: sarn
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sarna, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śarna. Cognates include Finnish saarna.
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