erne

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɝːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: earn, ern, urn

From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird, eagle”). Cognate with Dutch and Low German arend (“eagle”), Norwegian and Danish ørn (“eagle”), Swedish örn (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (órneon), ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”).

• earn, ern

erne (plural ernes)

1. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
2. (chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.

   the bald earn

• (an eagle): sea eagle, white-tailed eagle

• bald erne

• earn

erne

1. (obsolete) To long; to yearn.

• NEER, Neer, Rene, ne'er, neer, reen

erne

1. to sprout, to geminate

   Artoa erne da. — “The maize has sprouted.”